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Former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany criticized President Joe Biden for his inadequate response to the widespread anti-Israel protests on college and university campuses across the country, stating that her former boss, Donald Trump, holds the “moral authority” on the issue.
Last week on Fox News’s “Outnumbered” program, McEnany compared the former president’s strong response to the outbreak of protests and violence to Biden’s delayed and weak response. She also mentioned that she did not want to hear any more claims about “anti-Semitism” coming from the right.
“This is a problem of the left. Joe Biden hails from the left. He is a Democratic president. I’m sorry, but I give him no credit today. Zero credit today. I like to give Biden credit where credit’s due. Not today,” began McEnany. “So Biden speaks today because, politically, the moment demanded it. But what did he have time to do over the last nine days?
“Take issue with the effort of Florida to protect unborn babies. He went to the White House Correspondents Dinner. He did a campaign event in D.C. and a campaign event in Delaware. He found time for all that. He even went on Howard Stern. He found all the time in the world for that. But he couldn’t speak out about this,” she continued.
She noted further:
You don’t get credit for that. And then about a minute into his speech, which, by the way, only lasted about a minute or two — so, yeah, clearly not prioritizing this — about a minute or two to speak. He says this is not a moment for politics. It’s a moment for moral clarity. Well, it’s not a moment for politics. Then why have you treated it so politically?
Here’s the sad part. The press will let him get away with this. If Donald Trump had delivered those exact same remarks in the exact same timeline, the White House press briefing room would be at a fever pitch…We would be asked, “Do you denounce the support from any anti-Semitic protester?” And unless we denounced every young person in the country, that wouldn’t be enough. And then we would be asked, “Will you pull their student loans?” If we didn’t answer, there would be a ferocious roar from the White House press corps.
“As Donald Trump said, Joe Biden is the moral authority for this country. Has he acted like it? No. He’s led from behind,” McEnany concluded. “The former president has been the moral authority on this issue, not the current one.”
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Last month, a group of voters who cast ballots for Joe Biden in 2020 indicated they are fed up with his “gaslighting” on the economy and other issues and may give former President Donald Trump the nod this year.
Referred to simply as “Omar,” one individual participated in a focus group of “undecideds” convened earlier this week to deliberate on the 2024 election and factors influencing their voting decisions, The Daily Wire reported. He seemed to align with the group’s sentiments regarding their opinions on Biden, especially over the state of the economy.
During the conversation, they were asked to compare their current economic condition under Joe Biden’s presidency with that of Donald Trump’s. Surprisingly, each one of them expressed that they believed they were better off during Trump’s administration.
The focus group was then asked a follow-up question: “Is there anything Joe Biden could do or say between now and the time you vote that would make you feel differently about feeling that his policies would not be as good for your family on the economy, or are you pretty much decided that Trump’s policies would be better for the economy?”
One of the women was the first to respond, expressing her sentiment that Biden appeared to be neglecting to address the economy in a substantive manner.
“I feel like he doesn’t even take accountability for what’s — at all, with what’s going on. And not even accountability, like he’s in denial that it’s happening!” she said.
