You know it’s bad when Axios is calling out Jen Psaki for lying about President Biden checking his watch during a ceremony for soldiers killed during the botched 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal.
In her new book, “Say More,” the former White House press secretary claims that Biden looked at his watch only after the ceremony had ended, contradicting fact-checks (even Snopes) and on-the-record statements from Gold Star families who were there.
Psaki says Biden critics were engaged in “misinformation” and used the image to make “him appear insensitive, concerned only about how much time had passed.”
The Associated Press photographer on the tarmac snapped two photos of Biden looking at his watch twice and 10 minutes apart, as fact-checkers at USA Today and Snopes noted soon afterward. –Axios
Psaki also ‘mistakenly cited’ a passage from the Washington Post to reinforce her lie – when what she quoted was actually from USA Today‘s fact check article, not the post. The fact check noted that Biden looked at his watch at the end of the ceremony, but also concluded that “photos and video show [Biden] also checked his watch during the ceremony.”
Hellbound and Down 