{"id":1631409,"date":"2022-09-02T18:19:17","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T22:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1631409"},"modified":"2022-09-02T18:19:24","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T22:19:24","slug":"white-house-defends-presence-of-marines-at-bidens-anti-maga-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-defends-presence-of-marines-at-bidens-anti-maga-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Defends Presence of Marines at Biden\u2019s Anti-MAGA Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhite-house-defends-presence-of-marines-at-bidens-anti-maga-speech%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1631409&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The White House on Sept. 2 defended the presence of U.S. Marines in the background as President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-joe-biden\">Joe Biden<\/a> a day earlier <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/biden-accuses-trump-maga-republicans-of-extremism-in-rare-primetime-address_4706064.html\">delivered a speech<\/a> castigating supporters of former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe presence of the Marines at the speech was intended to demonstrate the deep and abiding respect the president has for these service members to these ideals and the unique role our independent military plays in defending our democracy no matter which party is in power,\u201d White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said during a briefing in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Biden spoke at a national park in Philadelphia, standing on an elevated platform.<\/p>\n<p>Behind him stood two Marines in full uniform, as well as two American flags.<\/p>\n<p>Critics said the staging was inappropriate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only thing worse than Biden\u2019s speech trashing his fellow citizens is wrapping himself in our flag and Marines to do it,\u201d Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>John Byrnes, a Marine Corps veteran and deputy director of Concerned Veterans for America, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/biden-slammed-veterans-group-using-marines-props-partisan-speech-erodes-trust-military\">told Fox News<\/a> that Biden\u2019s use of the Marines \u201cerodes trust\u201d in the U.S. military.<\/p>\n<p>Even legacy media reporters, who rarely criticize Biden, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/mainstream-media-reporters-target-biden-for-giving-polarizing-speech-flanked-by-us-marines_4705592.html\">said<\/a> the backdrop was unusual.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/bidens-in-philadelphia-1200x800-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4707888\"><\/a> President Joe Biden, alongside First Lady Jill Biden, arrives to speak outside of Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, Pa., on Sept. 1, 2022. (Jim Watson\/AFP via Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p>Jean-Pierre claimed it was \u201cactually normal\u00a0for presidents from either side of the aisle to give speeches in front of members of the military.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the speech, Biden said that Republicans who follow Trump\u2019s Make America Great Again (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-maga\">MAGA<\/a>) philosophy are extremists who threaten \u201cthe very foundations of our republic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no question that the Republican\u00a0Party today is dominated, driven, and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans, and that is a threat to this country,\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House on Sept. 2 defended the presence of U.S. Marines in the background as President Joe Biden a day earlier delivered a speech castigating supporters of former President Donald Trump. \u201cThe presence of the Marines at the speech was intended to demonstrate the deep and abiding respect the president has for these service [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1631409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1631409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1631409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1631409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1631409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}