The debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump set off panic in the Democrat Party.
But other than Joe Biden, there was no bigger loser coming out of the debate than Karine Jean-Pierre.
And that’s because Karine Jean-Pierre said two words about Joe Biden that she will live to regret.
Karine Jean-Pierre starts the “cheap fake” narrative
An avalanche of videos showing Joe Biden glitching and meandering went viral on social media.
Concerns about Joe Biden’s age and cognitive decline began to hit critical mass.
A video from a star-studded LA fundraiser showing Obama leading Biden offstage is going viral among conservatives and MAGA users on X. https://t.co/B1shYzaHOL pic.twitter.com/1J4LJKFEQQ
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) June 17, 2024
The timing couldn’t be worse for Democrats, as this narrative began to take hold in the two weeks before the critical debate between Biden and Donald Trump.
Trump led Biden in the polls, and this may be Biden’s last big chance for a reset.
Instead of having Biden go and sit for lengthy interviews where journalists could question him aggressively, Karine Jean-Pierre ordered the media to tell the American people that the videos of Biden suffering from cognitive episodes were “cheap fakes.”
“I think you all have called this the cheap fakes video, and that’s exactly what they are. They are cheap fakes video,” Jean-Pierre declared during a White House press briefing.
“They’re done in bad faiths. And some of your news organizations have, have been very clear, have stressed that these right wing, the right-wing critics of the president have a credibility problem because of the fact-checkers have repeatedly caught them pushing misinformation, disinformation,” Jean-Pierre continued.
“And so we see this, and this is something coming from, from your, your part of the world, calling them cheap fakes and misinformation,” Jean-Pierre concluded.
The media dutifully obeyed.
The New York Times, 6 days ago: pic.twitter.com/skDrztm54G
— Flappr (@flapprdotnet) June 28, 2024
The debate is where the cheap fake narrative goes to die
Americans could tell right off the bat in the debate that Joe Biden’s mind was gone.
Biden’s voice sounded raspy, and he could barely speak above a whisper on the occasions when he could actually speak and his brain didn’t shut down and when Biden lost his train of thought.
When Biden did answer questions, he offered up rambling nonsense that had little to do with the question asked of him.
Donald Trump got off one of the greatest zingers in debate history, saying in response to Biden, “I don’t know what he said at the end of that sentence and I don’t think he knows what he said either.”
President Trump: I don’t know what he said and I don’t think he know what he said
Nobody knows what the hell he’s saying pic.twitter.com/eYHbyLCmt8
— BahdAzzButter (@BahdAzzButter) June 28, 2024
The debate was so bad that the only conversation Democrats could have was how to get Biden out of the race so they could pick a new candidate.
Lots of can he/should he drop out text chains tonight among Dems
— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) June 28, 2024
