This Is What Actually Happened When Obama Walked With Biden Off Stage At Fundraiser: White House

4 months ago

Karine Jean-Pierre repsonds to a video of former President Obama walking off the stage at a Los Angeles, California, fundraiser with President Biden.

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00:00And just a quick follow on the video you were talking about.

00:02There were two instances in recent days

00:04where leaders, former President Obama and George Maloney of early,

00:07they physically put hands on the President to guide him

00:10and show him, give stage directions.

00:13Are they doing that on their own or has anybody asked them

00:14to run the show like that?

00:16First of all, let me spoke to the most recent, right?

00:20As we saw on Saturday, the President Obama put —

00:23President Obama's office put out a statement,

00:26so I would refer you to that statement

00:29about what was being accused in those — by others.

00:33And he said this did not happen in the sense

00:35of what people were saying they were seeing, right?

00:38Or what was being falsely reported that they were seeing.

00:42Let's not forget, President Obama, President Biden

00:45have a relationship. They are friends.

00:48They're like family to each other.

00:49And I think that's what you saw.

00:51You saw the President put his hand behind —

00:54on the back of President Biden.

00:59And they walked off the stage after taking questions,

01:03or at an event, taking questions from Jimmy Kimmel.

01:07That is what you saw.

01:08But I would refer you to President Obama's

01:11office statement. They talked about this.

01:13They discussed this, and they came out with it pretty quickly.

01:16All right.

01:18Maloney, I don't have anything.

01:21I don't know specifically what happened with Maloney.

01:24The wandering, the parachuting —

01:26No. I mean, look, that was, as I said,

01:28it was a cheap, you know, a cheap fake.

01:31That was definitely a cheap fake.

01:32It was. This was widely fact-checked.

01:36That video was widely fact-checked,

01:38including by conservative media on what had —

01:42what happened that — what occurred.

01:44The President walked over to give a thumbs-up to divers

01:48who had just landed right in front of him.

01:50And if you run that tape a little bit longer,

01:52you would see — you would see what was happening,

01:55what the President was actually doing.

01:57And it is a cheap fake. That is what —

01:59— about nothing, and he's totally normal?

02:01What I'm saying is, this is a President, right?

02:04Instead — let's step back for a second.

02:06Instead of — and I said this moments ago.

02:09Instead of Republicans, you know,

02:11focusing on the President's performance in office

02:14and what he's been able to accomplish,

02:16his actual record, they do these cheap fakes.

02:19They are cheap fakes.

02:20And you're asking me about the Maloney.

02:22You're asking me what happened.

02:23That video — that video — that video was —

02:27okay, let's talk about Juneteenth.

02:30The President stood there listening to the music,

02:34and he didn't dance. Excuse me.

02:36I did not know not dancing was a mental —

02:38was a — it was a health issue.

02:40That is a weird thing to actually flag when,

02:45if you — if you look at the people who were around him,

02:47if you look at the expanded video

02:50of the people who were around him,

02:51they were not — they were —

02:53there were some folks who were not dancing either.

02:55And that has been fact-checked.

02:57I mean, just because you're standing up,

02:58listening to music, and not dancing,

03:00that is not a health issue.

03:02That is just not a health issue.

03:03— The majority of American voters

03:05who are telling pollsters repeatedly for years now

03:08that they have serious concerns

03:10about this President's cognitive fitness

03:13are being misled by cheap fake videos?

03:15Is that what you're talking about?

03:16— I'm saying that there have been, in recent weeks,

03:18there have been cheap fakes videos

03:20that have been fact-checked.

03:22They've been fact-checked by conservative media as well

03:25to say that these videos are false.

03:30They're purposefully being altered.

03:33That is — that is — look,

03:37the President has done more in his three years,

03:41three and a half years as President,

03:42than most modern-day President

03:44in what he's been able to deliver.

03:46He's able to do that because he knows what he's doing.

03:50He knows how to deliver for the American people.

03:53He's able to make sure that we attack a climate crisis

03:56with the Inflation Reduction Act.

03:58He's made sure that we're able to create 15 million jobs,

04:01800,000 manufacturing jobs.

04:03He was able to make sure that unemployment went down.

04:06He was able to make sure that we are able to have Medicaid

04:11actually able to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies,

04:14something that no other —

04:16no other President has been able to do.

04:18This President has been able to do.

04:20I think that tells you everything that you need to do

04:22by looking at his record.

04:24And what you're seeing right now is Republicans,

04:26instead of talking what I just listed about,

04:29what I just talked about,

04:30they're really diving into these cheap fake videos.

04:35And it's in bad faith. That's what I'm saying.

04:37What they're doing is pure bad faith.

04:39And it's been fact-checked by many,

04:41including conservative fact-checkers.

04:43I got to — go ahead.

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