White House press sec. only answers 2% of scandal questions

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has answered just 2% of the questions put to her this year about President Biden’s scandals — including just one about allegations of corruption involving disgraced first son Hunter, according to a damning study.

The Media Research Center (MRC) analyzed all of the administration’s press briefings over the first six months of this year, noting a sharp contrast to the president’s pledge to “bring transparency and truth back to the government.”

In that time, Biden’s spokeswoman was asked 252 questions about either the president’s mishandling of classified documents or the corruption allegations being investigated by House committees, the watchdog said.

Of those 252 queries, just six — a measly 2% — got a “definitive answer,” the analysis noted.

All but one of those was related to the boxes of docs, with four of those five answers vague references to Jean-Pierre’s own knowledge of events rather than the president’s.


White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre talks to reporters during the daily news conference on Jun 30, the last day of the analysis.
Karine Jean-Pierre rarely answers questions about scandals despite President Biden’s vow to “bring transparency and truth back to the government.”
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The press secretary was asked about various claims of corruption at least 35 times — replying just once, the MRC report noted of another 2% response rate.

That was on June 13, when Jean-Pierre quoted Biden’s notorious dismissal of alleged audio recordings catching him accepting Burisma bribes while vice president — tied to his 53-year-old former drug addict son Hunter — as “malarkey.”

The trend has continued this month, with Jean-Pierre bluntly refusing to say if the president accepts Hunter’s love child as his granddaughter.


President Biden, First Lady Jill Biden and Hunter Biden with his son Beau watch the Independence Day fireworks display.
The only answer to a question about alleged corruption tied to first son Hunter, seen here with his dad and mom, was to quote the president’s dismissal of it as “malarkey,” the study found.
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It’s not just Biden’s spokeswoman ignoring the mounting scandals.

In the first half of the year, “none of the big three broadcast news networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) have spent a solitary second on any of the murky questions that surround Biden’s finances,” the MDC said.