United States: Joe Biden insults a Fox News journalist
President Joe Biden questioned by journalist Peter Doocy during a press conference at the White House, January 24, 2022. REUTERS - LEAH MILLIS
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To a question from a journalist who displeased him, President Joe Biden replied, open microphone, with an insulting remark.
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With our correspondent in Washington,
Guillaume Naudin
This is a question such as is posed to the crowd by the press at each public appearance of the president.
Before a meeting of the Competition Council around Joe Biden on Monday, January 25, journalist Peter Doocy, White House correspondent for the ultra-conservative news channel Fox News, asks him if inflation is a political handicap for the midterm elections.
It's unclear if he was aware the mic was on, but his response is both sarcastic and unfiltered.
“
No, it's a great asset
;
no more inflation,
”
quipped the American president.
Before letting go: “
What kind of asshole.
»
Inflation, at an unprecedented level in 40 years
, is particularly affecting Americans less than ten months before the midterm elections, which promise to be particularly complicated for the Democrats.
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Peter Doocy is the son of the host of one of Donald Trump's favorite Fox News shows and he has a notoriously strained relationship with the president. “
You always ask me the nicest questions
,” Joe Biden told him during his press conference last week. Joe Biden had already expressed his annoyance by murmuring on this occasion "
what a stupid question
" to a question launched by another Fox News journalist. It was during this episode that
the president made statements on the response to a minor Russian incursion into Ukraine
or on confidence in the midterm elections.
The White House had to provide after-sales service and clarify the president's thoughts in the media.
This time the answer is in writing in the official record of the event released by the White House.
So it's sort of official, even though Joe Biden called Peter Doocy to explain that it's nothing personal.
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