Karine Jean-Pierre Tries to Deny That Biden Called Trump Supporters ‘Garbage’

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After Joe Biden appeared to call Donald Trump supporters "garbage" on Tuesday in response to comedian Tony Hinchcliffe calling Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” at Trump's Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday, the White House press secretary is denying that ever happened.

Yet it did happen. See for yourself. It's short:

But on Wednesday, Karine Jean-Pierre was asked by a reporter about it and denied that that is what Biden said.

The Associated Press reporter Aamer Madhani pushed the White House press secretary on the matter and she insisted it was only Biden referring to the comedian.

“Just to clarify, he was not calling Trump supporters garbage which is why he put out, this is why he wanted to make sure that we put out a statement that clarified what he meant and what he was trying to say," Jean-Pierre said. "He was regarding to the comedian, and I quote ‘I refer to the hateful rhetoric about Puerto Rico by Trump’s supporter at his Madison Square Garden rally as garbage, which is the only word I can think of to describe it.'”

She continued, "His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, that’s all I meant to say. The comments do not reflect who we are as a nation. To your other question that you asked, no, he does not view Trump supporters or anybody who supports Trump as garbage. That is not what he views.”

Jean-Pierre declared that the president was just calling out “hateful rhetoric.”

Madhani then pressed Jean-Pierre - could Biden have spoken more clearly and also...

Why was Biden making his remarks as Kamala Harris was making her closing election argument on the National Mall?

Madhani asked, “Does he have any regret for not being more, his language was not specific. If you were listening to that video … if you were any sort of normal person listening to that video or looking at the clips online, you can come to the conclusion that he was calling, at minimum this one man garbage, or if not, all Trump supporters garbage. Does he regret not being more precise with his language? … Does he have any regret for how this shadowed Vice President Harris’ campaign?”

Jean Pierre replied, “So a couple of things there, there’s a lot that you laid out. Look, the president wanted to clarify because he understood that what he was saying was being taken out of context. So he wanted to be very clear about what he was trying to say."

"And I just read that out once over, you all have the tweet or the statement that’s on X," she continued. "And he was talking about hateful rhetoric, and we’ve called out hateful rhetoric from here. We have. Obviously, this hateful rhetoric was about a particular community, the Puerto Rican community, they are Americans, this is a community that he respects and he wanted to make sure that he called that out.”

Sure thing, KJP.

Joe Biden called Trump supporters garbage. It's clear as day in the video.

This administration can deny it all they want. But in doing so, not only does this president think half the country is garbage...

They think we're stupid, too.