Why is Karine Jean-Pierre REFUSING to say THIS?



Despite President Joe Biden being 80 years old, he has announced his run for re-election in 2024 — and many Americans are wondering if it’s a good idea.

A reporter recently asked White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre if Biden plans on serving all eight years if re-elected.

Her response?

“I’m just not going to get ahead of the president. That’s something for him to decide. I’m just not going to get ahead of it.”

She directed the reporter to the 2024 campaign and said “anything related to that, I would refer you to that.”

Sara Gonzales of "The News & Why it Matters" wonders aloud, “How is she so bad at this?”

Jean-Pierre later backtracked on Twitter, tweeting, “As you know, we take following the law seriously. So I wanted to be sure that I didn’t go into 2024 more than is appropriate under the law. But I can confirm that if re-elected, @POTUS would serve all 8 years.”

“Can you?” Gonzales mocks.

Ian Crossland of TimCast Media joins Gonzales to comment on Biden’s re-election campaign.

“Did they actually say they’re not going to have debates? They’re not even going to have Joe Biden debate? Even though there’s other candidates that are ready to debate and throw, you know, their hat in to make a better country, a better nation?”

Gonzales explains that the establishment would not want to put Biden on a debate stage with someone like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — who has also recently announced his bid for the 2024 presidency.

She adds that Biden’s being protected for “the same reason that they were fine electing John Fetterman.” She continues, “These two men are vegetables, but they at least serve as a figurehead and a puppet” who will “check the boxes that we need checked and sign the legislation we need signed.”


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Biden campaign takes down ad of wealthy Democratic donor posing as struggling small business owner



The campaign for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden appears to have removed an online ad after it drew widespread scrutiny for misleading voters.

The campaign plug, which featured a wealthy Democratic donor posing as a small business owner struggling to stay afloat due President Trump's "COVID response," was reportedly taken down sometime between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, according to the Daily Caller.

The ad, which was posted in TheBlaze's report on the news Tuesday, now reads "unavailable" and appears to be listed as "private." The Twitter account for Joe Malcoun, who co-owns "The Blind Pig" — the popular Ann Arbor, Michigan, live music venue featured in the ad — has also been made private.

What's the background?

"For 50 years, the Blind Pig has been open and crowded, but right now it's an empty room," Malcoun said in the video. "This is the reality of Trump's COVID response. We don't know how much longer we can survive not having any revenue. A lot of restaurants and bars that have been mainstays for years will not make it through this.

"This is Donald Trump's economy," he continued. "There's no plan and you don't know how to go forward. It makes me so angry. My only hope for my family, and for this business, and my community, is that Joe Biden wins this election."

It would later be revealed that Malcoun is not exactly representative of the many small business owners who have been decimated by the types of coronavirus-related lockdowns described in the ad.

To the contrary, Malcoun is actually a wealthy angel investor who donated $5,000 to the Biden campaign in July while the pandemic still raged on.

In an interview with a local news outlet in 2018, Malcoun described how he and his wife inherited a sizable sum of money after his wife's grandfather passed away. He said it was "like winning the lottery" and described money as "no object" ever since.

Besides being misleading, the ad was also incoherent in blaming Trump for the economic downturn even though the president has been generally opposed to lengthy lockdowns.

Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, on the other hand, has been regularly criticized for her strict pandemic guidelines, and former Vice President Biden recently suggested he'd implement a national lockdown if needed to combat the coronavirus.

Anything else?

One of the more amusing fallouts of the story's development has to be how cold California Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell's take on the ad has become.

Swalwell tweeted on Sunday that the ad was the "best" of the election season.

Biden ad features struggling small business owner under Trump’s COVID economy — only he’s actually a wealthy Democratic donor​



A Biden campaign ad released Sunday attempts to portray a humble Michigan small business owner struggling to stay afloat while his business is being decimated by President Trump's "COVID response."

"For 50 years, the Blind Pig has been open and crowded, but right now it's an empty room," says Joe Malcoun in the ad, describing popular Ann Arbor, Mich., live music venue "The Blind Pig," which he co-owns.

"This is the reality of Trump's COVID response," he continues. "We don't know how much longer we can survive not having any revenue. A lot of restaurants and bars that have been mainstays for years will not make it through this."

What's the problem?

The ad would certainly be effective if not for its misleading portrayal of Malcoun and its incoherent attack on the president's pandemic response, the Washington Free Beacon reported.

But as it turns out, struggling small business owner Malcoun is actually a wealthy Democratic donor who contributed $5,000 to the former vice president's presidential campaign in July as the pandemic raged on, Federal Election Commission filings show.

In an interview with a local news outlet in 2018, Malcoun described becoming a well-known angel investor for local tech startups after inheriting a large sum of money from his wife's late grandfather. During the interview, he characterized the inheritance as "like winning the lottery" and described money as "no object" after that.

"Usually you become a CEO and you make money, and then the money allows you to become an angel investor first," he said. "I happened to have different circumstances where I had money [first]."

While there is certainly nothing wrong with Malcoun coming into money and using it wisely to further his family's financial success, the full context of his financial situation gives reason to doubt that he is just like many small business owners in America who have been negatively impacted by coronavirus lockdowns.

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What else?

Furthermore, as noted by the Free Beacon in its report, President Trump has actually railed against the kind of lockdowns that the ad seems to be describing.

Rather, such lockdowns, which have resulted in thousands of Americans being put out of work, were implemented in Michigan by order of Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Meanwhile, Democratic nominee Joe Biden has warned that he'd implement a national lockdown if needed to combat the coronavirus.

Nevertheless, Malcoun complains, "This is Donald Trump's economy. There's no plan and you don't know how to go forward. It makes me so angry. My only hope for my family, and for this business, and my community, is that Joe Biden wins this election."

Yet in a June interview with MLive.com, Malcoun indicated Bling Pig owners weren't necessarily forced to stop having live music shows but chose to.

"There weren't a lot of people showing up, which is frankly what we wanted and expected," he told the news outlet. "Now that we tried it and saw it's really hard to communicate what it means to have a really socially distanced and live music show, we decided it's not really worth trying."

Malcoun did not return a request for comment to the Free Beacon.

(H/T: The Washington Free Beacon)