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At a Monday press conference after returning from a gaffe-packed trip to Europe where he made multiple provocative comments regarding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, President Biden asserted to Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy that none of his gaffes occurred. And despite running reports highlighting his biggest gaffe and showing Biden sticking to it, none of the broadcast evening newscasts dared to mention his inexplicable denial. In fact, a couple seemed to prop him up.
As NewsBusters reported, here’s the exchange between Biden and Doocy:
BIDEN: What’s getting walked back?
DOOCY: It made it sound like, just in the last couple days, sounded like you told U.S. troops that they were going to Ukraine, it sounded like you said it was possible the U.S. would use a chemical weapon, and it sounded like you were calling for regime change in Russia. And we know —
BIDEN: None of the three occurred.
Throughout ABC’s World News Tonight, the mission seemed to be to prop up the President as he stepped all over him. “Those words, while still in Europe were unscripted. Late today, the President said they were personal, not policy,” announced anchor David Muir.
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