This week President Biden spoke directly and clearly about his much-touted student loan forgiveness plan, stating that it passed through Congress with the narrowest of margins:
BIDEN: I “signed a law” to cancel student loan debt and “got it passed by a vote or two.” pic.twitter.com/AWKTlCjfeI
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) October 24, 2022
The problem? You already know this because our VIPers are politically astute (and very good-looking from what I’m told), but the student loan bailout was just another “wave of the pen” thing from the president.
BUT, that’s obviously not what Biden said. The president’s comment caused the White House spin machine to issue yet another clarification in an attempt to convince everybody they didn’t hear what they clearly heard Biden say:
Statement from the WH on Biden’s claim about passing student loan forgiveness “by a vote or two”— they say he was referring to the IRA, which reduced deficit in order to generate savings to pay for student loan cancellation https://t.co/w0eQ1ik41q pic.twitter.com/wHo9ook2Ce
— Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) October 24, 2022
* WH official clarified that they meant to say “billions”, not “millions” in the statement
— Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) October 24, 2022
Wow, there’s a lot of “clarifying” going on up in here!
This is a preposterous lie, as the video of the interview clearly shows. https://t.co/GPGIZrdDvl
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) October 24, 2022
“Preposterous lie” should be on this administration’s family crest.
WH Official: "Please, no more non-scripted interviews" pic.twitter.com/EXqhxoddX8
— bartleby (@ElderBartleby) October 24, 2022
Biden’s staff must just sit around and do shots while he speaks knowing all the backtracking that’s going to have to be done.
Their spinning abilities are admirable.
— Sandy (accidental skunk killer ☠️) 〽️ (@RightGlockMom) October 24, 2022
They spin so much that Dramamine must be available (for free of course) in order to prevent motion sickness.
This has to be a game within the White House at this point.
They take the latest verbal butchery of the President and gather in a locked room with Red Bull, Taco Bell, and weed and don't come out until they have an interpretation that makes them all laugh.
— Fuzzy Chimp 🇺🇸 (@fuzzychimpcom) October 24, 2022
That sounds totally believable.
Imagine how stupid you have to think the media and the American people are to even release this statement. https://t.co/WMvFx0gsY0
— Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) October 24, 2022
The Biden White House just hopes everybody else is as dopey as their base, which is not the case.
No one at the White House wanted to put their name to this absolute embarrassment of a statement. https://t.co/kWc49z0Cll
— Conn Carroll (@conncarroll) October 24, 2022
It’s amazing that anybody in this administration is willing to attach their real names to any of the messes they create.
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