President Biden is privately “monitoring” a wave of pro-terror, anti-Israel demonstrations on college campuses across the country, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Wednesday — nine full days since the chief executive last made an in-person statement on the unrest.
“He is monitoring the situation closely, so is his team,” Jean-Pierre said at her regular briefing when asked why Biden, 81, hasn’t personally addressed the chaos since answering a reporter’s shouted question on April 22 following an Earth Day event in Virginia.
Biden kept a low profile even as the NYPD stormed Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall Tuesday night to clear out dozens of activists who barricaded themselves in the building — and pro- and anti-Israel activists brawled at a tent encampment at UCLA.
The president’s most recent public remark on the crises was to say that he condemned both antisemitism at campus protests and people unsympathetic to Palestinians — a comment widely likened to then-President Donald Trump’s August 2017 decision to praise and denigrate “both sides” of deadly clashes in Charlottesville, Va., over the removal of a Confederate statue.
“I condemn the antisemitic protests, that’s why I’ve set up a program to deal with that. I also condemn those who don’t understand what’s going on with the Palestinians,” Biden said at the time.
Jean-Pierre bristled Wednesday at a NBC reporter’s comparison of Biden’s comment to Trump’s memorable moment.
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