I only see a few media making headlines about this, but it’s not surprising why the media has avoided making any mention of this.
Moments after signing the legislation Thursday, a White House reporter pressed Joe Biden on why he will not answer questions from the press.
Biden refused to acknowledge any questions from reporters during a signing ceremony of the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022, staring blankly into space as journalists lobbed questions about his son’s series of controversies.
“Why have you stopped taking questions from the press?” screamed one reporter.
“What are you afraid of???” asked another.
Joe Biden in a nutshell. pic.twitter.com/xg32VAYKA4
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) June 16, 2022
But what you’re about to see in “real-time” is the fear Joe Biden has about his son Hunter… You won’t see Joe get mad, and yell back at the reporter who asks a Hunter question — not this time — because this question is such a hot potato, that all Joe can do is sit there and look like a bigger, clueless dummy, than he usually does.
Western Journal reported that as the president finished signing the legislation, a reporter asked him a question about a Russian billionaire who paid $3.5 million to Hunter Biden through the firm Rosemont Seneca Thornton in 2014, according to the Daily Caller.
“Why haven’t you sanctioned Russian oligarch Elena Baturina who did business with your son?” the reporter said.
More details of this report from The Western Journal:
It was unclear whether the follow-ups came from the same reporter who asked the initial question about Baturina and his son.
Joe Biden must be afraid of something. Or maybe a lot of things.
According to the American Presidency Project, Biden has held eight solo news conferences during his time in office — six in 2021 and two in 2022 — and seven joint conferences.
His immediate predecessors, former Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump, held 27 and 21 news conferences, respectively, in their first year in office.
Biden held nine.
All told, both Obama and Trump held at least double the number of news conferences in a year than Biden has to date.
Even Chris Wallace — who left Fox News for the ill-fated CNN+ — called out then-White House press secretary Jen Psaki in April on why Biden had been “sheltered” by the press.
Psaki attempted to defend the president by saying he takes questions from the reporters at the White House “nearly every day.”
Wallace wasn’t having it.
“I’ll tell you exactly why that’s different,” he said, “because when you’re standing there you can take a question, you can answer it, you can sluff it off and you move on.
“It in no way compares, and oftentimes, he gives a partial answer and walks away. It in no way compares to sitting down with a reporter for 20-30 minutes and having a ‘you can’t move away,’ ‘you can’t duck it.’”
Chris Wallace is correct to push Psaki on why Biden isn’t taking more questions from the press. It’s been far less than his predecessors. pic.twitter.com/BJqrn1W4aK
— Geoff Pilkington (@geoffpilkington) April 21, 2022
There are a lot of questions the Biden Administration needs to answer. ‘Who is the ‘big guy’?’ ‘Why did we pull out of Afghanistan?’ ‘Who is addressing our border crisis?’ ‘Can Biden utter a coherent sentence — with or without the teleprompter?’ We deserve to know.
But we are not holding out any hope that the Democrats will work to assuage our concerns. They may be punished at the ballot box as a result, just as we are currently being punished at the gas pump. That’s another question the Biden Administration has not effectively answered — ‘why can’t they solve the gas crisis?’ And other than appeals to the so-called ‘Putin Price Hike’, they got nothing.
These are all questions your average American worries about. It is depressing that that’s the state we live in in the year 2022. The world is in crisis, and it is largely the Democrats’ fault.
Sources: WesternJournal, Daily Caller
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