No matter who is in the White House, it is important that the people have at least a modicum of trust in their president. That is not currently the case for President Joe Biden, whom two-thirds of adults already distrust.
Unfortunately, Biden’s choice of Karine Jean-Pierre to be his next press secretary will only make it harder for voters to have any faith that anything his White House says is true.
Almost all press secretaries come from partisan backgrounds with campaign experience. Jean-Pierre’s predecessor, Jen Psaki, who is moving on to MSNBC, worked on President Barack Obama’s campaign, for example. Jean-Pierre is no different, and no one should fault her for that.
What is troubling about Jean-Pierre’s record is her well-established pattern of spreading disinformation about the most important topics of the day.
Before Donald Trump was even sworn into office, Jean-Pierre falsely claimed he was an illegitimate president who had stolen the 2016 election. “Stolen emails, stolen drone, stolen election … welcome to the world of #unpresidented Trump,” she tweeted in December 2016.
Switch out “Trump” for “Biden,” and the exact same tweet would have gotten her kicked off Twitter in 2021 for spreading disinformation about the 2020 election.
Two years later, Jean-Pierre was at it again, this time spreading lies about Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Any reasonable person should have known that Julie Swetnick’s stories about Kavanaugh drugging and gang-raping women in high school were...
“When companies use kickbacks to influence prescribing, they erode trust in healthcare providers,” said special agent Helsing. Takeda Pharmaceuticals, U.S.A. Inc has agreed to $13,670,921 amid alle...