White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Thursday mentioned President Biden’s giggle whilst discussing a mom who misplaced her two youngsters to fentanyl overdoses used to be being taken out of context and that his center is going out to all sufferers.
The giggle got here all over Biden’s speech on the House Democratic Caucus Issues Conference in Baltimore Wednesday evening. The president used to be reacting to feedback from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who had recommended that his management used to be guilty for the fentanyl overdose of a lady’s two sons in 2020.
“Listen to this mother, who lost two children to fentanyl poisoning, tell the truth about both of her son’s murders because of the Biden administration’s refusal to secure our border and stop the Cartel’s from murdering Americans everyday by Chinese fentanyl,” Greene tweeted after a House listening to at the southern border disaster.
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While discussing Greene’s feedback and the lack of the girl’s two sons, Biden laughed.
“Isn’t [Marjorie Taylor Greene] amazing?” Biden mentioned.
“[S]he was very specific recently, saying that a mom, a poor mother who lost two kids to fentanyl, that, that I killed her sons. Well, the interesting thing is that fentanyl they took came during the last administration,” Biden mentioned whilst giggling.
Asked Thursday if Biden regretted how it got here out, Jean-Pierre mentioned the president has himself handled tragedy and sympathized with the mummy.
President Joseph Biden offers the keynote deal with at the first evening of âPeople Over Politicsâ House Democrats 2023 Issues Conference on the Hyatt Baltimore Inner Harbor on Wednesday, March 1, 2023, in Baltimore. (Kenneth Ok. Lam/Baltimore Sun/Tribune News Service by means of Getty Images)
“I believe the American people know who he is fundamentally because he’s been around for some time and they have watched him go through grief. They have watched him deal with personal loss,” Jean-Pierre mentioned, including that “his heart goes out to any person who has to go through that type of trauma, that type of hurt.”
Jean-Pierre mentioned the president’s phrases had been frequently being “mischaracterized” by means of Greene “who is regularly discredited for things that she says that are really conspiracy theories and those lies are being parroted by a certain network.”
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Fox News Digital has reached out to Greene’s place of work for a reaction.
Fox News’ Adam Sabes contributed to this record.
