What good is a Press Secretary to a White House that refuses to be everything but transparent? Katrin Jean-Pierre proved, yet again that it’s time for her to hang up her hat as the White House Press Sec. In a brief presser, KJP basically pleaded the 5th when asked about Twitter’s censorship and its connection to the Biden family—Refusing to do her only job.
White House Jean-Pierre was questioned by Fox News White House Correspondent Jacqui Heinrich on if President Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign was aware of the FBI’s communication with Twitter.
Heinrich asked the query after a signed declaration revealing that the FBI had informed Twitter executives of a potential “hack-and-leak” by “state actors” to meddle in the 2020 presidential election was made public. During weekly meetings with Twitter and other government agencies, the FBI alerted the social media platform to purported election security concerns.
“Did anyone from the Biden team communicate to Twitter that this reporting stemmed from hacked materials?” Heinrich asked at Wednesday’s briefing.
“Are you talking about the campaign?” the press secretary asked.
“It would’ve been the campaign or anyone around the family, just wondering because in the Twitter Files release and what Matt Taibbi said, he noted that typically the company would require a law enforcement or official finding that something was hacked in order to exercise their hacked materials clause and that he didn’t see that in what had been given to him,” she continued.
According to the press secretary, she is not permitted to speak on behalf of a current or prior political campaign due to the Hatch Act. She responded that social media platforms’ content is solely the responsibility of the companies that operate them.
“I can’t speak to decisions made by the campaign from here, it is a political campaign so I can’t speak to that from here,” she said. “I’m covered by the Hatch Act and so I’m just not going to comment on the question that you’re asking me.”
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I’ll ask again; what good is a press secretary that refuses to do their one job? Maybe she’s suffering a burn out but here lately, kJP’s cracks are showing so it may very well be time to hang up her hat. She can move on to whatever network that will take her.