WH Press Secretary Gets Defensive When Reporter Asks About Biden Allegedly Laughing

When questioned about the untrue claim that President Joseph Biden laughed at a mother whose sons died from fentanyl overdoses, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre retaliated at Fox News.Show more

Rebecca Kiessling, who testified before Congress about the sad overdose deaths of her two boys, was interviewed by Fox News host Harris Faulkner on Thursday. In that interview, Kiessling and Faulkner attacked Biden for allegedly laughing at Kiessling's suffering during a recent speech when, in reality, he was making fun of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for wrongly blaming him for their deaths.

When asked about the incident during Thursday's White House briefing, Jean-Pierre attacked Greene and Fox News for "lying" about the president:

The journalist posed the following query: "Can you tell me about a particular part of the President's speech last night in Baltimore? In his discussion of Marjorie Taylor Greene, he brought up a mother who had lost two of her kids to fentanyl. The fascinating thing, he continued, is that the fentanyl they ingested originated from the previous delivery. He then appears to laugh.

The mom is asking for an apology. And I wonder if he was disappointed with how things turned out."