During a Monday, March 18 press briefing, White House national security advisor Jake Sullivan shut down a question Fox News White House Correspondent Peter Doocy asked regarding the president's behavior behind closed doors.
Citing a Sunday, March 17 report published by NBC News, Fox News White House Correspondent Peter Doocy suggested that — behind the scenes — President Joe Biden responds to unsettling news by "shouting and swearing."
The NBC report reads, "President Joe Biden was seething. In a private meeting at the White House in January, allies of the president had just told him that his poll numbers in Michigan and Georgia had dropped over his handling of the war between Israel and Hamas."
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The report also notes the president "began to shout and swear, a lawmaker familiar with the meeting said." However, when "asked about the episode, Andrew Bates, a White House spokesman, said: 'President Biden makes national security decisions based on the country’s national security needs alone — no other factor,'" NBC reports.
"A report that, when President Biden was told his handling of the war between Israel and Hamas was starting to affect his poll numbers, the quote is, 'He began to shout and swear.'" Doocy said to Sullivan. "So, when he does that, is he shouting and swearing about Netanyahu or about Hamas, or about his poll numbers?" the Fox News correspondent asked.
"This is the 'When did you stop beating your spouse?' question because I don’t think he ever did that," Sullivan said."
The question "When did you stop beating your spouse?" is commonly used to point out when someone asks a loaded question.
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"Excuse me?" Doocy replied.
"Well, you used that as the premise of your question," Sullivan said. "Which is, 'When he does that…' I’ve never seen him do that – shout or swear in response to that. So, from my perspective, that particular report is not correct."
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