Biden relied on ‘cheat sheets’ as he faced reporters in first press conference, photos show

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By Thomas Barrabi | Fox News


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President Biden referenced "cheat sheets" detailing key policy points and the identities of attending journalists when he conducted the first formal press conference of his presidency on Thursday.

Photos taken at the event showed Biden holding a card labeled "infrastructure," with key statistics and talking points. One bullet point noted that "China spends 3 times more on infrastructure than U.S."

In another photo, Biden was seen consulting a sheet that appeared to show the pictures and news outlets of journalists who attended his press conference. Some of the pictured reporters had a circled number next to their images.

Just 25 reporters were permitted to attend the press conference. Biden took a limited number of questions from a list of pre-selected reporters before leaving the podium. Fox News’ Peter Doocy was not among the reporters who were selected to ask a question.

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Biden answered questions related to the ongoing crisis at the southern border, his view on calls to end the filibuster, and an array of other topics. The president said he intends to run for reelection in 2024.

Critics of the Biden administration have called on administration officials to make Biden available to the press on a regular basis. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki holds daily briefings.

The use of note cards is not unprecedented at press conferences. In November 2019, Trump held a notebook with handwritten prompts during a press conference on testimony delivered at his first impeachment hearing.

[FBD]

>b-b-b-but Trump wrote out notes!
>biden has a goddamned picture book instructing him who to call on for questions

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By Ryan Saavedra - The Daily Wire


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Democrat President Joe Biden received a lot of criticism following his press conference on Thursday over his use of notes, as well as over a photo showing that Biden had seemingly pre-selected reporters to call on.

Fox News host Chris Wallace, a registered Democrat, said that he was “struck by the fact that it seemed on every foreign policy question, not the others, but on foreign policy, he went to his briefing book like Jen Psaki does sometimes in the briefings, and was reading obviously White House guidance, White House talking points.”

“Covering Ronald Reagan for six years, I never saw that,” Wallace continued. “Watching a lot of news conferences over the years, I’ve never seen that — a president in a news conference reading talking points. He did that on, it seemed, every foreign policy question.”

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A photograph that was taken of Biden at the podium showed that he appeared to have a pre-selected list of reporters that he called on. The reporters were numbered, and the numbers they were assigned correlate with the order in which they were called.

The photo shows 1. Zeke Miller, Associated Press; 5. Ken Thomas, The Wall Street Journal; 9. Justin Sink, Bloomberg News; 8. Kaitlan Collins, CNN.

At no point during the press conference did Biden ever appear to be holding a writing utensil, meaning the reporters were selected before he arrived at the podium.
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“Fox News reporter Peter Doocy was in the room but Biden did not call on him, instead consulting a list that he repeatedly looked at when determining who he was going to call on,” The Daily Wire reported. “All of the reporters that Biden called on were from left-of-center mainstream publications and far-left organizations or are activists who masquerade as reporters.”

Biden called on the following reporters:


Zeke Miller, reporter, Associated Press
Yamiche Alcindor, far-left reporter, PBS
Seung Min Kim, reporter, The Washington Post
Cecilia Vega, reporter, ABC News
Ken Thomas, reporter, Wall Street Journal
Kristen Welker, reporter, NBC News
Nancy Cordes, reporter, CBS News
Kaitlan Collins, reporter, CNN
Justin Sink, reporter, Bloomberg News
Janet Rodriguez, reporter, Univision

Numerous pundits and political strategists have alleged online that Biden appeared to have received the questions in advance. The allegations haven’t been proven. Reports had already surfaced from the first days of the Biden administration that said that the Biden administration asked for reporters’ questions in advance of the daily press briefings.