Psaki taken to task by Chicago Thinker reporter

 Red States:

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Though Psaki undoubtedly thought it would be smooth sailing, as it turns out she did indeed face challenges from the media during the event when a reporter from the University’s “Chicago Thinker” independent newspaper stepped to the microphone and questioned her over her comments from earlier this month when she stated in response to a question about radical pro-abortionists protesting outside of the homes of conservative Supreme Court Justices that “We certainly continue to encourage that [what she called “peaceful protests”] outside of judges’ homes.”

The problem with that answer is that it completely ignored the inconvenient fact that U.S. Code states protests outside of the homes of judges with the intent of influencing (read: intimidating) them to rule one way or the other are unlawful and are subject to fines and/or a year in prison.

It is perhaps with that thought in mind that “Chicago Thinker” journalist/senior editor Daniel Schmidt rose from his seat to ask her about those remarks and if she regretted them. After he asked the question, Psaki first astonishingly denied she said exactly what she said. Schmidt then held up his phone and said he was quoting her. Psaki then tried to insinuate that because he left the word “peaceful” out of his question that he was lying about what she said. Schmidt correctly pointed out that “peaceful” or not, she and the rest of the Biden White House advocated for unlawful protests outside of the Justices’ homes.

Psaki’s response was to gaslight in the extreme, yada-yadaing about how she “never encouraged anyone to protest,” saying that she instead “encouraged them to engage peacefully and to do it without violence.” It was classic word games from her, as though “engage peacefully” is any different from “protest peacefully.”

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The statue does not mention the word peaceful when it bans all protests.  She should have known that and said all protests are banned when trying to influence the outcome of a judicial decision.  

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