How Jen Psaki adroitly dodges Fox News’s verbal grenades at push briefings | Biden administration

Is Joe Biden to blame for vaccine hesitancy for the reason that he claimed he did not have faith in Donald Trump? “Not that we have witnessed in the facts,” replied Jen Psaki, the White Residence push secretary. That was the feint. Then arrived the thrust for the jugular.

“I would be aware that at the time, just for context, the former president was also suggesting men and women inject versions of poison into their veins to treatment Covid.”

For questioner Peter Doocy, White House reporter for the conservative Fox Information channel, there was no coming back again from that verbal roundhouse kick from Biden’s prime media spokesperson. Until up coming time of training course.

For four a long time the White Property need to have felt like property turf for Fox Information. President Donald Trump was a normal interviewee on the network when describing other media as the enemy of the people today. His push secretaries Sean Spicer, Sarah Sanders and Kayleigh McEnany duly took a combative strategy to the briefing space, tossing out verbal grenades that commonly failed to explode.

Now the shoe is on the other foot and Fox Information finds by itself as a primary voice of dissent at the daily press briefing, asking some of the bluntest inquiries as it tries to select holes in the Biden administration.

The duels involving Doocy, son of Fox & Close friends co-host Steve Doocy, and Psaki, an alumnus of the Barack Obama administration, barely rank alongside Spicer’s

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