White House Reporters: Biden Team Wanted Our Questions in Advance

The Daily Beast

"If you’re a reporter with a tough question for the White House press secretary, Joe Biden’s staff wouldn’t mind knowing about it in advance.

"According to three sources with knowledge of the matter, as well as written communications reviewed by The Daily Beast, the new president’s communications staff have already on occasion probed reporters to see what questions they plan on asking new White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki when called upon during briefings." . . .

Biden doesn't trust his own lapdog press . . . "Three, and this might be most useful of all: Come in to the White House press briefing room and do the job normally. Everyone submit their written questions, but after the spin-show ice cream questions are answered, publish a list of all the actual questions submitted, the better to report the matter of which issues are being stonewalled. That would yield actual news to report upon, meaning, reporters doing their jobs. " . . .

. . . Jen Psaki's GameStop answer about Janet Yellen's speech earnings from bigfoot banks and hedge funds, all summed up as Yellen being a female Treasury secretary is yet another. This is an administration that can't let questions be asked lest the truth get out. And that's disgusting.

Republicans tear into Biden's Press Secretary Jen Psaki and demand she apologize for mocking Space Force during briefing where she told reporters to 'stop putting words in my mouth'

. . . "Psaki also managed to ruffle more feathers in the briefing room Tuesday when she hit out at a Politico reporter accusing her of 'putting words in my mouth' over the White House's China strategy. 

"This came after it emerged the press secretary has been trying to find out questions  from reporters in advance of her press briefings in the two weeks since Joe Biden took office." . . .

White House press office screened reporter questions to Jen Psaki 

. . . "An editor at Spectator USA, Amber Athey, who used to cover the White House for the Daily Caller, said she has never heard of reporters being questioned.

“The Trump administration certainly never asked me for questions in advance and I suspect there would have been universal outrage from reporters if they had done so,” Athey told Fox News.

"Conservative strategist Chris Barron said the practice would be “normal” in a “banana republic.”

“It’s absolutely unheard of in this country,” Barron told Fox News.

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