Monday, July 5, 2021

Biden pulls out notes, struggles to answer question on Russia: ‘I’ll tell you what they sent me, OK?’ July 5, 2021 | Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

 

Biden pulls out notes, struggles to answer question on Russia: ‘I’ll tell you what they sent me, OK?’

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President Biden embarrassingly stumbled over a question from a journalist concerning Russian cyber-hacking that he had just been briefed on, pulled notes out to respond, and then disastrously struggled over the answer.

At a Michigan pie shop on Saturday, Biden’s mental acuity once again came into question. He seemed unable to coherently string words together to formulate an answer on Russia when answering what appeared to be a simple, straightforward question from a reporter while he was checking out.

“Mr. President, let me know if I can ask you a question,” one of the White House press pool asked Biden. The president told him, “Sure.”

“With the most recent hack by the Russians, would you say that this means…” Biden then cut him off. The question was in regards to a massive cyberattack that affected over 200 U.S. companies Friday at the beginning of the Independence Day weekend. Cyber-security firm Huntress Labs is blaming the Russia-linked REvil ransomware gang for the hack.

“We’re not sure it’s the Russians,” Biden declared. “I got a brief when I was on the plane. That’s why I was late getting off the plane.”

(Video Credit: Fox News)

It only got worse from that point forward.

“I’ll be in better shape to talk to you about it,” Biden stumbled and then stopped to pull notes from his jacket breast pocket evidently having to do with the cyberattack that he was just briefed on.

“I’ll tell you what they sent me, OK?” Biden responded and then started reading from his notes. “The idea,” he began reading after a long pause to collect his thoughts, “[F]irst of all we’re not sure who it is for certain, number one. And what I did, I directed the full resources of the government to assist in a response if we determine – what else you need?” Biden distractedly asked, seemingly to the cashier.

‘Oh nothing, you’re all set,’ she told the president.

“OK,” he said and then resumed answering the reporter. “The fact is that I’ve directed the intelligence community to give me a deep dive on what’s happened, and I’ll know better tomorrow. And if it is either with the knowledge of and/or a consequence of Russia, then I told Putin we would respond,” he finished returning the notes to his pocket.

Biden stated that he had not spoken with the Kremlin because he was waiting on confirmation from the intelligence community that Russia was behind the attack. Again, he reiterated that they did not know for sure Russia was behind it.

“We’re not certain. The initial thinking was it was not the Russian government, but we’re not sure yet,” he remarked.

The exchange raised not only criticism from conservatives online, but from those who have prior national intelligence experience.

Former Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell tweeted, “Americans are horrified by these weekly videos highlighting Biden’s mental state. DC reporters ignore these moments – but we see. And we see [the media] protecting Biden.”

The issue of Biden’s mental competence has been raised frequently since he took office. In Wisconsin on Tuesday, Biden brought the subject up himself claiming that he’s been unfairly accused of “losing it” mentally.

More than a dozen Republican House members have requested in a letter that Biden take a cognitive test just as former President Trump did. They want the results released “so the American people know the full mental and intellectual health of their President.”

“The American people should have absolute confidence in their President,” the letter to Biden stated. “They deserve to know that he or she can perform the duties of Head of State and Commander in Chief. They deserve full transparency on the mental capabilities of their highest elected leader.”

Texas representative and ex-White House doctor Ronny Jackson says that Biden appears “confused.” He also says that the president is “not aging gracefully.” He told Fox News on Saturday, “I think he’s demonstrating every single day that there is something going on.”

“You don’t need to be a physician to look at this behavior and see there’s something concerning happening,” Jackson noted.

“You can go back – there’s 40 years of tape of this man – he’s always made gaffes and stuff but these are different, he’s confused, he’s disoriented,” he added.

Americans are alarmed by Biden’s confusion and perceived weakness:

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Vanessa Williams’ performance of ‘black national anthem’ at PBS July 4th celebration draws blowback July 5, 2021 | Tom Tillison |

 

Vanessa Williams’ performance of ‘black national anthem’ at PBS July 4th celebration draws blowback

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Just as America has seen in abundance the past year or so, today’s racially divisive woke culture was ever-present this year as the nation celebrated Independence Day.

Be it NPR trashing the Declaration of Independence as “a document with flaws and deeply ingrained hypocrisies” that included “a racist slur,” or PBS featuring Vanessa Williams performing the “Black national anthem” during its 4th of July coverage, there was an orchestrated effort to exploit the holiday to push the left’s racial agenda.

And based on the blowback, that agenda is beginning to wear thin on folks.

Appearing on PBS’s annual Capitol Fourth program, the first black woman to win the Miss America Pageant referenced Juneteenth, which has now been established as a federal holiday, when commenting on performing “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” which is often referred to as the “black national anthem.”

“It’s in celebration of the wonderful opportunity that we now have to celebrate Juneteenth. So we are reflective of the times,” Williams told the Associated Press.

Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, the day federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas to proclaim that enslaved black people in the state were free — this coming well over two years after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation which established that all persons held as slaves “shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.”

In effect, Juneteenth marks the day news of the Emancipation Proclamation reached Texas.

Williams praised PBS for allowing social justice to be front and center in their 4th of July program, a focus on how we are different rather than how we are alike.

“We’re reflective of the times and I’m happy to be part of a tremendous show that the producers are aware and willing to make the changes that have happened within the past year and a half,” the actress and singer said.

For the record, PBS did allow the actual national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner,” to be performed.

Williams hosted “A Capitol Fourth,” which has be on air for 41 years. She performed at last year’s show also and made social justice central to that appearance, selecting Stephen Sondheim’s song, “Not While I’m Around,” according to USA Today.

Williams said her choice of songs expressed the angst that black mothers feel, saying the song “talked about just the connection that you have with your child and wanting to protect them, which was definitely reflective of George Floyd and how everybody felt that pain.”

Make no mistake, the radical left sees “Lift Every Voiceand Sing” as a replacement for “The Star-Spangled Banner” which they claim is racist because of a misunderstood lyric in the third stanza — the vast majority of Americans have never heard of the stanza, let alone sing it.

As for the blowback on social media, if there was a theme it would center on what divides us as a people rather than what unites us.

Here’s a quick sampling of the responses to the story from Twitter:

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