USA: Biden insults journalist on a microphone
New Delhi: US President Joe Biden was caught on a hot mic cursing a media reporter at a White House event on Monday after the journalist shouted a question about the impact of rising inflation on this year’s congressional elections.
The mic was right in front of Biden, but it appeared as if he were making the remark to himself or that he might have thought the mic had been turned off.
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Appeared to forget the hot mic
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“Do you think inflation is a political liability in the midterms?” the reporter asked the president as journalists were leaving the room at the end of an event at the White House on Monday.
US consumer prices increased solidly in December, culminating in the largest annual rise in inflation in nearly four decades. The White House did not respond to a request for comment.
Biden took office a year ago pledging to take a hard line on any disrespect among members of his administration.
“If you are ever working with me and I hear you treat another colleague with disrespect, talk down to someone, I promise you I will fire you on the spot, no ifs, and or buts,” Biden told political appointees during a virtual swearing-in ceremony. “Everybody is entitled to be treated with decency and dignity,” he said at the time.
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