UH OH! KJP Storms Out of Presser – 10.7.2024

Karine Jean-Pierre, fresh off her promotion, had a very tense back and forth with Fox News’ Peter Doocy.

Watch here:

Must watch TV as the Press Briefing leads to KJP storming out

Peter Doocy & KJP get heated over Biden sending money to Lebanon without Congressional approval but refusing to do so for North Carolina.

Doocy: "You can't call a question you don't like misinformation." pic.twitter.com/4kgaVqW0s0

— Media Research Center (@theMRC) October 7, 2024

Doocy and KJP have had firework interactions before, but this is a new low for the Press Secretary.

She wasn’t the only one trying to combat “disinformation” about the hurricane relief funds.

NBC’s Kristen Welker tried to deploy the same talking point with Sen. Tom Cotton… It didn’t go well.

Tom Cotton cuts through Kristen Welker's BS regarding Hurricane Helene, noting that Democrats always have money to spend, except when it comes to Americans in need:
Kristen Welker: "Like the idea that FEMA funds are being redirected to migrants which is not true."
Tom Cotton: "It… pic.twitter.com/WIRmwckzmv

— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) October 6, 2024

J.D. Vance summed up the Biden administration’s mishandling of FEMA funds on Fox this morning.

.@JDVance: “They’ll say, ‘Well there’s bucket of money in FEMA that’s gone to illegal aliens & that’s somehow separate than the bucket of money that should by right go to Americans. I think that misses the fundamental point, that the Biden-Harris admin has turned FEMA effectively… pic.twitter.com/pzm4DjoV5r

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) October 7, 2024

Over the weekend, Vice President Kamala Harris gave a brief address in Charlotte on the relief efforts.

Read here:

Well, Governor, I want to thank you — General, Administrator.  I came out to talk with the folks who have been doing God’s work on the ground here in the last several days. 

The work that is happening here and that continues really is the best of what we can do to bring federal, state, and local resources together in a way that is coordinated with one purpose and one purpose only, which is bringing relief, support, and help to the people who are most in need and desperate for help and desperate to be seen and heard.

I just spoke with members of the National Guard to thank them.  They, like so many who are on the ground doing this work — whether it be through FEMA, the governor’s office, state offices — they — many of them who are doing this work have been directly hit themselves.  We are talking about people who are leaders, who are from the communities that have been hardest hit. 

And I think we all have to recognize and thank them for the nobility of their work and their calling, which is to leave their home, to leave their families who may need the kind of resources that they can provide.  But they have taken an oath.  They have taken on a job that says to them they must go and help those who are in need, many who may be strangers to them.

So, I came here to find out what’s going on on the ground, to find out what more we can do in terms of federal aid, such as what we announced today, and the federal support we’re giving to Mecklen- — Mecklenburg County in terms of disaster relief — the work that we are doing, which is $100 million to assist with the rebuilding of Interstate 40.  And also, again, just to thank the folks on the ground for what they are doing every day.

And, again, I want to thank you, Governor, Administrator, General, everyone who is here — Colonel — for all you are doing on behalf of everyone in this region and our nation.  You all are doing extraordinary work, and we are forever grateful to you all.  So, thank you.