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House Speaker Mike Johnson blasted President Biden as an “embarrassment” for seemingly apologizing to Laken Riley’s accused killer instead of to the slain student’s family.
“The president is cowering to his base and showing deference to a man who deserves none. This man is an illegal immigrant who brutally murdered Laken Riley. President Biden should be apologizing to Laken’s family. What an embarrassment,” Johnson wrote on X on Sunday, responding to Biden’s interview with MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart that aired Saturday.
At the urging of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., Biden, during an off-script moment in his State of the Union address on Thursday, decried Riley’s killing by “an illegal.” The president later backtracked during his interview with Capehart, saying he should have instead used the word “undocumented” to describe Jose Ibarra, a Venezuelan national charged with murdering Riley, an Augusta University nursing student who was out for a run on the University of Georgia campus last month.
Biden told Capehart, “I shouldn’t have used ‘illegal,’ I should have… it’s undocumented. And look, when I spoke about the difference between Trump and me, one of things I talked about on the border was the way he talks about vermin, the way he talks about these people polluting the blood. I talked about what I’m not going to do, what I won’t do. I’m not going to treat any of these people with disrespect”
“Look, they built the country, the reason our economy is growing,” Biden claimed.
The president is cowering to his base and showing deference to a man who deserves none.
This man is an illegal immigrant who brutally murdered Laken Riley.
President Biden should be apologizing to Laken’s family.
What an embarrassment. pic.twitter.com/NhX0sxSbsM
— Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) March 10, 2024
Now White House officials are flip-flopping on the issue once again.
While aboard Air Force One on Monday, deputy press secretary Olivia Dalton told reporters, “There was no apology anywhere in that conversation. He did not apologize. He used a different word.”
Dalton then declared, “I think it’s unconscionable that there are some people who are playing politics with this young woman’s tragic murder.”
She then tried to blame Republicans, wildly claiming, “House Republicans are standing in the way of a bipartisan border security agreement that is the toughest bill we have ever seen in history, and they are doing so because Donald Trump feels that the American people’s safety is less important than his personal politics. That’s the fact.”
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Biden spokeswoman Olivia Dalton now claims Biden didn’t actually apologize for calling Laken Riley’s illegal alien killer an “illegal.”
FACT: Biden not only apologized, he said illegal aliens “built this country.” pic.twitter.com/4GBotgwKjP
— Republican National Committee Research (@Republican National CommitteeResearch) March 11, 2024
Bloomberg reporter Jennifer Jacobs pointed out that Dalton’s last day in the Biden administration is Wednesday. She’s leaving for a new job at Apple.
Asked about Biden apologizing for using word “illegal” to refer to immigrants, “the president did not apologize,” White House spokeswoman Olivia Dalton says in last press gaggle. “There was no apology anywhere in that conversation.” (Her last day is Weds.; has new job at Apple.)
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) March 11, 2024
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— Military Recruiting Crisis (@Mil_Rec_Crisis) March 11, 2024
Johnson chastises Biden for ‘regret’ on calling Laken Riley murder suspect ‘illegal’: ‘What an embarrassment’ https://t.co/Qbq5c8abVw
— Fox News Politics (@foxnewspolitics) March 11, 2024
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