Watch: Biden Was Forced To Face The Hard Questions, For Once!
What number of crises under Biden does the Ukraine invasion make? There have been too many that I think I'm starting to lose count. It looks like the honeymoon for the press is finally over as journalists rip into Biden in an unscripted press briefing.
Yes, Fox News's Peter Doocy got his licks in, but to much surprise—He wasn't alone, for once:
[M]arkets are down and gas prices are up. I know you always stress the difference between Wall Street and main street, but everybody seems to be in for some economic pain. How economically painful is it going to get for people in this country?
Biden replied “markets will respond,” but it’s “highly unlikely” to have a long-lasting impact “as long as” the U.S. and its allies “stay resolved in imposing the sanctions.”
Doocy continued to press, asking whether Biden “underestimate[d] Putin” and if he’s “confident” these sanctions will “be as devastating as Russian missiles and bullets and tanks.” In both cases, Biden answered in the affirmative.
DOOCY TIME: "Markets are down and gas prices are up. I know you always stress the difference between Wall Street and main street, but everybody seems to be in for some economic pain. How economically painful is it going to get for people in this country?" pic.twitter.com/p9ky97KZE2
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) February 24, 2022
Joining Doocy was CNN’s, Kaitlan Collins who hit Biden on his failed weaponized sanctions:
COLLINS: If sanctions cannot stop President Putin, what penalty can?
BIDEN: I didn't say sanctions couldn’t stop him.
COLLINS: You've been talking about the threat of these sanctions for several weeks now.
BIDEN: Yes, but the threat of the sanctions and imposing the sanctions and seeing the effect of the sanctions are two different things. They're two different things and we’re now going to — he's going to begin to see the effect of the sanctions.
COLLINS: And what will that do? How will that change his mindset here given that he’s attacking —
BIDEN: Cause it will —
COLLINS: — Ukraine as we speak.
BIDEN: — so weaken his country that he’ll have to make a very, very difficult choice of whether to continue to move toward being a second-rate power or, in fact, respond.
COLLINS: You said in recent weeks that big nations cannot bluff when it comes to something like this. You recently said that the idea of personally sanctioning President Putin is on the table. Is that a step that you’re prepared to take and, if not —
BIDEN: It's not a bluff. It's on the table.
COLLINS: — sanctioning President Putin?
CNN's @KaitlanCollins: "If sanctions cannot stop President Putin, what penalty can?"
Biden: "I didn't say sanctions couldn’t stop him."
Collins: "You've been talking about the threat of these sanctions for several weeks now." pic.twitter.com/LeJFxYpXol
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) February 24, 2022
Even NBC got involved with Peter Alexander:
"[Y]ou detailed some severe and swift new sanctions today and said that the impact it will have over time, but given the full scale invasion, given that you're not pursuing disconnecting Russia from what’s called SWIFT — the international banking system — or other sanctions at your disposal, respectfully, sir, what more are you waiting for?"
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The hits didn't end there. Biden was made to face the music, for once, and overall—he failed to that too. It was, at least, a huge step for the nets in the right direction.
