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Oct 12 2022
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Biden Presses L.A. Council Members to Quit Amid Backlash from Leaked Audio
President Joe Biden said he believes that Democrat and former Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez should resign from city council following a leaked audio recording where the councilwoman made racist remarks about a colleague's son.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Tuesday during a press briefing that the president has been following the
Newsweek
Oct 12 2022
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Biden calls for LA City Council members caught on tape making racist remarks to step down
President Biden has called on embattled Los Angeles Councilwoman Nury Martinez and other council members present when she made racist remarks to step down, the White House said.
Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Biden believes “they all should” resign in light of the Martinez’s comments where she called a colleague’s young black son “that little monkey” in Spanish.
“Look,
New York Post (News)
Dec 06 2022
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Musk's 'Twitter Files,' revealing censorship of Hunter Biden laptop story, is a 'distraction, White House says
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Monday dismissed Elon Musk’s release of the so-called "Twitter Files" as a "distraction" at a time when she says the platform is facing a rise in hate speech.
The exchange came days after Musk, who acquired Twitter in late October, released bombshell revelations about what led the tech giant to suppress a New York Post story on Hunter
Fox Business
Sep 15 2022
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Biden pushed railways, unions to ‘be creative’ and ‘flexible’ to reach a deal and avoid a shutdown, White House says
President Joe Biden urged railway executives and union leaders to be creative and flexible in finding a compromise to avoid a shutdown that could have disrupted the transport of goods across the U.S., White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said.
“The president’s message — it was very clear — we must get a deal done,” Jean-Pierre told reporters at a press briefing Thursday. “He
CNBC
Aug 30 2022
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KJP Confronted Over Hypocrisy of Denying Djokovic Entry While Illegal Immigrants Pour Through Border
Fox News’s Peter Doocy confronted White House Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre over the administration’s hypocritical travel restrictions.
On the one hand, he pointed out, unvaccinated travelers like tennis star Novak Djokovic are not allowed to come to the United States by plane, but at the same time thousands of unvaccinated illegal immigrants are pouring across the southern border.
Townhall
Sep 01 2022
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White House Backs Biden's 'Semi-Fascism' Comment, Singles Out Violent GOP Rhetoric
The White House on Wednesday pushed back against GOP criticism that President Joe Biden has abandoned his promise to unify the country following his condemnation of “extreme” Republicans.
During the daily press briefing, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre singled out several Republican lawmakers who have endorsed violence as examples of a dangerous pattern of right-wing rhetoric. She
HuffPost
Oct 22 2022
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White House urges borrowers to apply for student debt relief despite court order
The Biden administration is urging student loan borrowers to continue applying for debt relief despite a federal appeals court order late on Friday that temporarily halted this program.
“[This] temporary order does not prevent borrowers from applying for student debt relief,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement following the eighth circuit court of appeals
The Guardian
Jun 18 2022
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Biden's White House press secretary given ethics waiver despite wife working at CNN
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was discreetly awarded an ethics waiver allowing her to work with CNN despite the fact that her partner, Suzanne Malveaux, is employed by the network as a national correspondent.
The Post Millennial reported about the conflict of interest on May 6th as Jean-Pierre and Malveaux are married, live together, and are raising a young child.
The Post Millennial
Aug 21 2022
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Biden to host September summit targeting hate-fueled violence
U.S. President Joe Biden will host a White House summit in September to counter the effects of hate-fueled violence on American democracy and highlight his administration’s actions to reduce gun violence, the White House said on Friday.
The Sept. 15 summit, dubbed “United We Stand,” will bring together officials, faith leaders and civil rights groups and feature a keynote speech by
Reuters
Dec 15 2022
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The secret JFK assassination files are finally here
The National Archives on Thursday released thousands of secret documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Driving the news: In a memo, President Biden authorized more than 70% of the roughly 16,000 remaining files on JFK's death to "now be released in full." The decision came after a "comprehensive effort to review" the files over the last year, Biden stated.
Axios