President Joe Biden gave his first press briefing in over two months in office on Thursday. At his briefing, he kept looking at his notes over and over again.
Now, we have a first inside look at what was on those notes he had in his hands.
Can you see what is on there? Here is a closer look:
You can see numbers next to journalists’ faces and names, suggesting that the president was taking prepared questions in order. No wonder zero conservative media reporters were called on during the press conference.
It turned out that Biden was calling on reporters based on a prepared list, just like many had thought.
Biden is calling on friendly reporters based on a list. It has already been documented that the Biden administration has reached out to reporters to see what questions they are going to ask in advance.
Biden is repeatedly looking at notes, unable to answer without help
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) March 25, 2021
https://twitter.com/atensnut/status/1375145819700137984
Confirmed: Biden has a list of hand-picked reporters behind the podium that he is going to call on
— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) March 25, 2021
Watch Biden keep referring to his list and his notes as he takes his first question:
Biden, after taking a question from Zeke Miller of the Associated Press, fumbles around with his notes and takes peeks at it throughout his answer.
“Well, I’m — look,” Biden said and paused, then began looking through a booklet of scripted answers. “When, uh, when I took office I, uh, decided that it was a fairly basic, simple proposition. And that is, I got elected to solve problems.”
“And the most urgent problems facing the American people I stated from the outset,” he contiued, “was COVID-19 and the economic dislocation for millions and millions of Americans.”
“And so that’s why I put all my focus in the beginning, for a lot of problems, put all of my focus on dealing with those particular problems,” Biden said while again referring to his notes.
Reporters and pundits couldn’t believe what they were seeing.
Biden goes to the notes!
— Jason Miller (@JasonMillerinDC) March 25, 2021
Biden has his answers written down on note cards pic.twitter.com/gLFlMoxkw8
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) March 25, 2021
Biden reads his notes again when told by a "question" that immigrants come here because he is such a moral man. pic.twitter.com/3B2F4RFZTi
— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) March 25, 2021
Look at Biden rifling through his notes. Did you ever see Trump do that ever? Did you ever see any president do that ever? Please tell me you understand what you’re watching right now. Please tell me you recognize this horror and what is occurring right now. Please.
— 🇺🇸Lionel🇺🇸 (@LionelMedia) March 25, 2021
Even Chris Wallace called him out for referring to his notes during the press conference, saying he had “never seen any POTUS do that.”
Chris Wallace just said Biden “read from prepared answers on every foreign policy question. I’ve never seen any POTUS do that”
— Peter Kinder (@PeterKinder) March 25, 2021
Despite having 64 days to prepare for the event, Biden can’t even answer a question authoritatively without notes.
What a difference from President Trump, who could talk for hours unscripted without notes or a teleprompter.
President Trump took time to answer all of the left wing reporters during his many press conferences. Biden wouldn’t even let one conservative outlet ask him a question. Shows how fragile he is. He could only take softball questions from friendly media that he was briefed on.
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) March 25, 2021
Daily reminder—Donald Trump never needed his handlers to write out a pre-approved list of reporters to call on during his press conferences.
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) March 25, 2021
Tonight, former President Trump will react to Biden’s press conference with Laura Ingraham. I am sure he will have plenty to say about Biden’s “performance.”
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