From the right: The Prez’s Short Leash

At The Hill, Joe Concha finds it “amazing, almost disturbing,” that President Biden, “the leader of the free world,” gets advised not to “speak to reporters” outside controlled settings, as White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki admitted last week. This explains why he only calls on reporters, from “a predetermined list,” who won’t challenge him. And when Biden does take questions, “his answers are often misleading or outright wrong.” US adversaries “are taking note” that Biden’s team has “no confidence in his ability to speak” outside scripted remarks. Yet “if there was ever a time when a president” needed “to be scrutinized, this is certainly it,” given the “trillions upon trillions” in new spending he wants.

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