Thursday’s White House press briefing appropriately had a central focus of late Wednesday’s landfall of Hurricane Milton on Florida’s Gulf Coast and tornadoes across the state, but the partisan shills chose to ask a slew of questions emphasizing about this vague “misinformation” campaign they claim has had catastrophic consequences in the south as somehow on part with apocalyptic physical devastation and incalculable loss of life and fortune.
CNN’s Kayla Tausche first went there with this question to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who obviously went along with angry but also vague claims:
You said on CNN yesterday that some of the misinformation that had been perpetuated...was already beginning to have an impact on individuals either applying or deciding not to apply for government relief. Can you elaborate on what exactly you’re seeing and what exactly you determined to be the cause of that?
The worst behavior came from Disney’s resident North Korean news lady for the Biden-Harris regime, Mary Bruce:
ABC’s @MaryKBruce with the REAL question that matters to those affected by #Helene and #Milton....
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) October 10, 2024
Bruce: “You know, we've seen reports that some FEMA officials, including the administrator, are being doxxed and targeted online in the wake of these hurricanes. Are you concerned… pic.twitter.com/rCX66GxqC3
Ah, yes, Mary. Definitely put FEMA workers at the center of one’s pity, not those who lost everything in Helene and/or Milton.
She dug deeper her pit of selfishness, clearly alluding to Russia: “Do you have any information to suggest that any foreign governments have tried to take advantage and amplify this misinformation about the response and recovery effort?”
Bruce came up again when it was Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre’s turn and made it not about the recovery efforts, but whether Trump supporter and St. Petersburg-area Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna received a verbal lashing in a call with President Biden:
ABC’s @MaryKBruce on #Milton: “Congresswoman [@realannapaulina], who represents the St. Petersburg area, said that she spoke with the President today about the response. She is one of those people who has been spreading disinformation, misinformation about FEMA assistance. Did… pic.twitter.com/D7KiWLkVXX
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) October 10, 2024
A reporter in the Reuters seat twice tried to have Jean-Pierre commit the regime to going after social media companies:
[H]as the White House been in touch with the leadership of social media networks where a lot of this disinformation is being spread?
(....)
Are the platforms themselves doing enough to police the disinformation?
Fox’s Jacqui Heinrich wasn’t having any of this.
Instead, she asked an evasive, prickly, and seemingly unpleasant Mayorkas about the disturbing revelation this week of an Afghan refugee being charged with allegedly wanting to carry out an Election Day terror attack.
Heinrich laid out the discrepancies thus far between government agencies:
This Afghan national who was working for the CIA in Afghanistan, was arrested for planning an Election Day terror plot. He was brought to the US after Afghanistan collapsed, your agency says, as part of the SIV program. The State Department is telling us he was not part of the SIV program, which had strenuous vetting . They say he was never issued an SIV or immigrant visa, and DHS paroled him into the U.S. They further expect the court document to be updated to reflect this from the DOJ side. So, Mr. Secretary, how was this man brought into the U.S.? What screening did he undergo? What did he apply for to get here?
Mayorkas unsurprisingly declared he was “here in North Carolina” talking to those who’ve lost family members and their homes, so he would only address it “in a different setting.”
He was such a miffed prick he threw in a condescending, “thank you.”
To Heinrich’s credit, she wasn’t having it and not intimidated by Mayorkas’s rudeness (click “expand”):
HEINRICH: I [inaudible] that, Mr. Secretary, but we’re getting conflicting answers from your agency and from the State Department about a man who was arrested for an Election Day terror plot. How do you not have those answers prepared?
MAYORKAS: Oh, Jacqui, that’s — uh — not what I said. What I said is I’d be pleased to discuss this issue at a different time, but I am here to speak about disasters that have impacted people’s lives in real time, and that is a subject that I’m addressing today.
HEINRICH: But can you assure —
JEAN-PIERRE: Okay, we’re gonna —
HEINRICH: — Mr. Secretary — can you assure people that appropriate steps have been taken to secure the country against these kinds of threats because the outstanding question is whether this man was radicalized before the U.S. government brought him here or after and people should be concerned about that?
MAYORKAS: Jacqui, Jacqui, Jacqui your persistence in questioning can be matched by my persistence and answers.
JEAN-PIERRE: Ha ha ha! Alright, we’re gonna go.
During Jean-Pierre’s turn, NBC’s Gabe Gutierrez defended Heinrich and asked himself:
NBC’s @GabeGutierrez: “I'm following up on [@JacquiHeinrich]'s question from earlier on the Afghan terror suspect. NBC is reporting that he was a security guard for the CIA before he came to the U.S. and that he passed two rounds of vetting. Does the administration believe there… pic.twitter.com/abGh3t0m8v
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) October 10, 2024
To see the relevant transcript from the October 10 (including another “disinformation” question), click here.
