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Reporters rig White House press secretary for dodging questions about Trump – Reuters

October 3, 2025

She first asked reporters not to “hesitate to ask her a million questions about it.” After Smith asked a question that the spokeswoman dodged, Shire demanded to know why Jean-Pierre was very open to questions about Trump in the past but refuses to do so now, and whether it’s due to the increase from the rating of the former American. chairman of the polls.

A spokeswoman said she would “never mention Trump again in connection with his 2024 candidacy” from the briefing room podium, prompting laughter in the room, Fox News reported.

For his part, Smith again noted the fact that in the Republican Party poll, Trump is leading among potential presidential candidates. He tried to ask Jean-Pierre how Biden saw him. The journalist asked: “So candidate or not, does the current President Biden follow the words and actions of Donald Trump quite regularly, given that he represents a danger, in his opinion?.

The spokeswoman declined to answer, saying that since the question was about a “candidate for the 2024 election”, she was “just not going to talk about him”. “What I can say is how the president is focused on the American people and how he is working for the American people,” retorted Jean-Pierre, calling the main threat to American society not miscalculations in the economy, inflation or illegal migration, but “it is the MAGA (Trump supporters – editor’s note) wing of the Republican Party and President McCarthy” who, in her own words, “hold the American economy hostage “. Further attempts by reporters to get from the press secretary what Jean-Pierre and Biden themselves really think about Trump’s chances of victory have failed.

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