Former White House Press Secretary and current MSNBC contributor — but I repeat myself — Jen Psaki got caught repeating an oft-debunked Big Lie in her new book, “Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World.”
Psaki, according to an Axios report on Monday, “claims in her new book that President Biden never looked at his watch during the ceremony for soldiers killed during the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.”
“The president looked at his watch only after the ceremony had ended, Psaki wrote. “Moments later, he and the First Lady headed toward their car.” Except that it did happen, multiple times, according to eyewitnesses and photographs taken at the event.
Axios called it “the latest instance of current and former Biden administration officials downplaying or misrepresenting controversial episodes from the Afghanistan withdrawal ahead of the 2024 election.”
Psaki says she’ll remove the claim in future print editions and from the ebook.
Jordan Schachtel wrote last week that Gov. Kristi Noem’s (R-S.D.) embarrassing flubs (and now Psaki’s, too) “exposed an open secret about the political publishing industry: a tiny percentage of…
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