{"id":283773,"date":"2024-03-17T07:50:41","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T07:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=283773"},"modified":"2024-03-19T08:08:58","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T08:08:58","slug":"biden-praises-schumers-anti-israel-speech-clams-up-as-staffers-herd-reporters-out-post-haste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=283773","title":{"rendered":"Biden Praises Schumer\u2019s Anti-Israel Speech, Clams Up As Staffers Herd Reporters Out Post Haste"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Virginia Krula \u2013 The Daily Wire March 15, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>President Joe Biden offered praise for Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer\u2019s recent speech on Israel \u2014 despite the fact that Schumer had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/schumer-calls-for-netanyahus-ouster-new-elections-in-israel-amid-war-with-hamas\">blasted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a> and called for early elections \u2014 and then sat in complete silence as his staffers quickly herded members of the press from the room.<\/p>\n<p>Biden was meeting on Wednesday morning with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, and he paused briefly to answer one of the questions shouted by the reporters who were gathered in the room \u2014 namely, \u201cDo you have any comments on Sen. Schumer\u2019s speech on Israel yesterday?\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Biden praises Sen. Chuck Schumer&#39;s anti-Netanyahu speech: &quot;He made a good speech.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>His handlers then promptly and aggressively herd the press out of the room. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qMPzj9kVYw\">pic.twitter.com\/qMPzj9kVYw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1768663947396149369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 15, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSen. Schumer contacted my staff, my senior staff, he was going to make that speech, and I\u2019m not going to exag \u2014 er \u2014 elaborate on the speech, he made a good speech and I think he expressed serious concern shared not only by him, but by many Americans,\u201d Biden replied.<\/p>\n<p>All the reporters then began shouting at once, trying to make their questions heard \u2014 but Biden sat back and, with a half smile on his face, did not appear to even hear the chaotic shouting around him.<\/p>\n<p>Within a few seconds, Biden staffers could be heard joining the fray \u2014 and they quickly shuffled the reporters out of the room as the president remained silent, moving only to fidget with the pen he was holding in his hands.<\/p>\n<p>Next to him, Prime Minister Varadkar appeared to be mildly amused by the whole scene. He sat quietly with his hands together in his lap, breaking the pose briefly to adjust his tie when someone pointed out that it was crooked.<\/p>\n<p>As members of the press got up and left, Biden flashed a wider smile and waved slightly, appearing to briefly thank them for being there. Through it all, one staffer could be heard over the reporters repeating, \u201cLet\u2019s go, let\u2019s go, thanks everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-praises-schumers-anti-israel-speech-clams-up-as-staffers-herd-reporters-out-post-haste\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was his praise another momentary lapse of attention by President Biden? Or does it herald a shift in US support for Israel? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Inside_the_White_House_and_Washingtons_Beltway","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=283773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283775,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283773\/revisions\/283775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=283773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=283773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=283773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}