{"id":1700783,"date":"2022-10-18T06:02:09","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T10:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1700783"},"modified":"2022-10-18T07:18:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T11:18:43","slug":"jill-biden-lashed-out-at-white-house-staffers-for-not-stopping-joes-solo-presser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jill-biden-lashed-out-at-white-house-staffers-for-not-stopping-joes-solo-presser\/","title":{"rendered":"Jill Biden Lashed Out at White House Staffers for Not Stopping Joe&#8217;s Solo Presser"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fjill-biden-lashed-out-at-white-house-staffers-for-not-stopping-joes-solo-presser%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=1700783&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-->\n<p>First lady Jill Biden tore into White House staffers after they failed\u00a0to cut off President Biden\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/01\/19\/watch-live-biden-holds-first-press-conference-of-2022\/\"> second solo press conference<\/a> in January \u2014 when her husband kept taking questions even as then-press secretary Jen Psaki signaled to the president to wrap it up, according to a report.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>President Biden was grilled at the Jan. 19 news conference about his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, tensions between Washington and Moscow over Ukraine and the supply chain crisis that was causing a shortage of goods across the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Following the presser, which went on for about two hours, Jill Biden popped into a meeting of top White House officials\u00a0who were rehashing the president\u2019s performance, the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/10\/16\/us\/politics\/jill-biden-democrats-midterms.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> New York Times <\/a>reported.\u200b<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/first-lady-jill-biden-file-1.jpg\"><\/a>First lady Jill Biden tore into White House staffers after they failed\u00a0to cut off President Biden\u2019s second solo press conference in January.AP Photo\/Morry Gash, Pool <\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe pointedly asked the group, which included the president, why nobody stepped in to stop it, according to a person who was in the room,\u201d the outlet said. \u201cWhere was the person, she demanded, who was supposed to end the news conference?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Times report, describing how the first lady has become a favored surrogate for the president ahead of the midterm elections, noted that she has been protective of her husband and even took part in hiring White House staffers and press aides, including vetting Psaki alongside the president.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At the January presser, the president had been answering questions from a pre-arranged list of reporters for roughly an hour when Psaki \u2014 clad in an eye-catching pink blazer \u2014 stood up in an apparent attempt to bring the proceedings to a close.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/biden-press-conference-january-file-4.jpg\"><\/a>According to the first lady, the staffers should have stopped Biden when the time for the presser was up. EPA\/Oliver Contreras \/ POOL <\/p>\n<p>But the president kept going, prompting Psaki to stand up again about 20 minutes later and walk to a door about 50 feet away from the seating area in another apparent attempt to end the questioning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A short time later, the president asked his audience \u2014 which was limited to 30 reporters due to the pandemic, but was not asked to observe social distancing guidelines \u2014 how long they wanted him to continue. After looking at his watch, Biden said he\u2019d go another 20 minutes \u2014 though he actually went on for approximately another half-hour.<\/p>\n<p>The news conference became notorious for Biden suggesting that Russia would only face a muted US response for a \u201cminor incursion\u201d into Ukraine and predicting that Vladimir Putin would \u201cbe able to prevail over time\u201d over Kyiv. <\/p>\n<p><em>Additional reporting by Steven Nelson<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First lady Jill Biden tore into White House staffers after they failed\u00a0to cut off President Biden\u2019s second solo press conference in January \u2014 when her husband kept taking questions even as then-press secretary Jen Psaki signaled to the president to wrap it up, according to a report.\u00a0 President Biden was grilled at the Jan. 19 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1897367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1700783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700783","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1700783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1897367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1700783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1700783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1700783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}