{"id":1636202,"date":"2022-09-08T11:49:53","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T15:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1636202"},"modified":"2022-09-08T11:49:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T15:49:56","slug":"white-house-insists-bidens-soul-of-the-nation-speech-was-not-divisive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-insists-bidens-soul-of-the-nation-speech-was-not-divisive\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Insists Biden\u2019s \u2018Soul of the Nation\u2019 Speech Was Not Divisive"},"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\">24<\/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-insists-bidens-soul-of-the-nation-speech-was-not-divisive%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=1636202&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 is defending President Joe Biden\u2019s divisive \u201cSoul of the Nation\u201d speech that cast Trump-aligned Republicans as a threat to America.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDonald Trump and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-maga\">MAGA<\/a> Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic,\u201d Biden said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/biden-accuses-trump-maga-republicans-of-extremism-in-rare-primetime-address_4706064.html?utm_source=ai&amp;utm_medium=search\">Sept. 1 speech<\/a>\u00a0delivered at Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia,\u00a0referring to the acronym for former President Donald Trump\u2019s 2016 campaign slogan, \u201cMake America Great Again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden stood in front of deep red backlighting flanked by two Marines during the speech. The optics drew criticism even from mainstream commentators who said it was historically unusual for a president to denigrate his political opponents while using U.S. military members as props.<\/p>\n<p>During a White House daily briefing on Sept. 7, White House press secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-karine-jean-pierre\">Karine Jean-Pierre<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?522688-1\/white-house-briefs-monkeypox-response\">defended the speech<\/a> and said that it was not divisive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe way that we saw the speech is that he was talking to a majority of the country who agree that we have to protect our democracy, who agree that we have to protect our freedom, who agree that we have to protect our rights,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The press secretary went on to say that it\u2019s \u201cproblematic\u201d when people call Jan. 6 protestors \u201cpatriots.\u201d Such statements are \u201ccoming from leaders,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Jean-Pierre\u2019s characterization of Republicans who question the outcome of the 2020 election as a \u201cthreat to democracy\u201d is in stark contrast to her own denial of past election results.<\/p>\n<p>Just a month after Trump beat Hillary Clinton in 2016, Jean-Pierre wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/K_JeanPierre\/status\/810294911815847936\">tweet<\/a>, \u201cStolen emails, stolen drone, stolen election.\u2026.welcome to the world of #unpresidented Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later in April 2020, Jean-Pierre <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/K_JeanPierre\/status\/1245752237353308160\">wrote on social media<\/a> that \u201cBrian Kemp stole the gubernatorial election from Georgians and Stacey Abrams,\u201d referring to the 2018 Georgia governor\u2019s race and once more dismissing the outcome of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House is defending President Joe Biden\u2019s divisive \u201cSoul of the Nation\u201d speech that cast Trump-aligned Republicans as a threat to America. \u201cDonald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic,\u201d Biden said in a Sept. 1 speech\u00a0delivered at Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia,\u00a0referring to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":186,"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-1636202","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\/1636202","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\/186"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1636202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636202\/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=1636202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1636202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1636202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}