Former Vice President Mike Pence told President Joe Biden to cut his “family vacation” to Ireland short and do his job as America is hit by multiple over the numerous crises.
Pence said: “With everything this country is dealing with, with a crisis at our border, with inflation at a 40-year high. The American people struggling. China’s provocations, Russia on the move in Eastern Europe.
“I just don’t get what appears to be a family vacation in Ireland taking precedence, and the president not doing a full-blown press conference, not responding to this and making the statement that it didn’t appear to be contemporaneous.
“I would tell you some of this information, if it turns out to be legitimate about Chinese hypersonic weapons at a time that China continues to menace against Taiwan.
“The information about air defenses in Ukraine.
“I just don’t understand how that’s not contemporaneous, not timely.
“I think the president needs to step forward.
“He needs to assure the American people that every step is being taken to guard our nation.
Marc Thiessen, the former chief speechwriter for President George W. Bush, said:
“The idea that a 21-year-old kid can expose sources and methods of how we spy, how we have penetrated the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, because apparently we’ve exposed the fact we know they have a new hypersonic missile that can reach the United States, that they exposed our penetration of the Russian Defense Ministry, that could affect the war in Ukraine.
“I mean, the incompetence is stunning.”
But the biggest disgrace is saved again for the corporate media in this country. Glenn Greenwald summed it up perfectly:
“I can barely put into words how dangerous and twisted it is that it is now the NYT and WashPost that does the FBI’s job for it by hunting down leakers of classified information — the people on whom real journalism depends.”
I can barely put into words how dangerous and twisted it is that it is now the NYT and WashPost that does the FBI’s job for it by hunting down leakers of classified information — the people on whom real journalism depends — working in tandem with state-funded Bellingcat: https://t.co/v2VIq2lSYI
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 14, 2023
Look how Democratic Party media personalities — in both this tweet and the replies that follow — are treating as normal, *celebrating*, that it’s now major media corporations that do the FBI’s work.
Dems are 100% aligned with the US Security State:https://t.co/uxnR60O8DP
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 14, 2023
Just now, the NYT silently deleted its false statements from the article, without bothering to add a correction, an editor’s note or any other indication that this happened.
Just a stealth edit after these errors were up for more than 12 hours, as if it never happened: pic.twitter.com/6GMuFDCBGC
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 14, 2023
