Blue State Blues: Suddenly, the Words of a President Don’t MatterJoel B. Pollak
15 Apr 2022
President Joe Biden campaigned throughout 2020 on the idea that “the words of a president matter.” He used that principle to blame President Donald Trump for every act of violent extremism in the country, from the Charlottesville riot to the January 6 fiasco....
But now, the official line out of the Biden administration, as Breitbart News White House correspondent Charlie Spiering points out, is that when President Biden says words, they do not really matter and they do not establish U.S. policy.
Charlie Spiering
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Jen Psaki just wrapped up a passionate argument that the words of a president don’t matter, especially if he’s being emotional
4:40 PM · Apr 13, 2022
The White House has been forced to adopt this stance in the past few weeks as Biden has said increasingly belligerent things about Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Last month, in Warsaw, Poland, he said Russian President Vladimir Putin should be removed from power. Earlier this week, in Washington, DC, he said that Putin was guilty of “genocide,” even without the investigation that Biden’s own White House said last week would be necessary before such a consequential determination could be made.
Biden’s provocative rhetoric is at odds with his actual policy toward Russia, which involved easing some of the pressures that Trump had applied to Putin’s regime. ...
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