Fox News’ Edward Lawrence interrupted White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre’s epic dunk session to ask an important question about India.
Jean-Pierre spoke to several news outlets, including The New York Times, CBS News, NBC News, Newsmax, and The New York Post, about new revelations that President Joe Biden was aware of and involved in his son. He was desperately trying to fend off questions from representative reporters. Hunter business deals. But then came a moment of redemption for her from Lawrence, who had pressing questions about her India.
“Go back to India if you can. India is on the U.S. priority watch list alongside China and Russia for failing to protect intellectual property. What assurance did you get from Prime Minister Modi that India will protect intellectual property in ??” Lawrence asked.
“As two nations and leaders who are certainly at the forefront of innovation and intellectual property, the United States and India have strong common interests in protecting intellectual property and shared technology ecosystems,” Jean-Pierre said. complied. “So protecting IPEs and expanding market opportunities for US companies in India, welcoming large-scale investments from India to the US, and diversifying supply chains were all topics of discussion.”
Lawrence then asked about inflation.
Just before Lawrence asked tough questions about India-U.S. relations, Newsmax’s James Rosen told both Jean Pierre and White House National Security Council press secretary John Kirby that Hunter had been in 2017. asked about documents showing his father intimidating a Chinese business official by saying he was sitting. with him. Kirby refused to answer, so reporters asked Jean-Pierre for his opinion.
“Was the president involved in the shakedown attempt?” asked the newspaper’s Stephen Nelson, but Jean-Pierre declined to give a definite answer.
But Friday’s usual suspect was an anomaly, with CBS and NBC reporters following up on the question. (Related: ‘Not an unfair question’: Reporter slams KJP for dodging Hunter’s text message question)
“Was the president there?” asked CBS News’ Weijia Zhang.
“Did you talk to the president about this? Did you ask him if his son was there on July 30?” pushed NBC News’ Monica Alba.
“I will refer you to the White House legal counsel,” Jean-Pierre said. Kirby also refused to answer the question.
But hey, even if we never got to know about potential investments by Hunter and his father, at least Americans would know about investments in India.
