White House Accused of ‘Next Level Gaslighting’ as It Uses Word Games to Try to Get Biden Out of Laken Riley Mess
Did President Joe Biden apologize on national television for using the word “illegal” to describe a man who crossed the southern border illegally and is suspected in the brutal murder of a young American woman?
White House deputy press secretary Olivia Daltonta doesn’t think so.
During an Air Force One media briefing on Monday, a reporter prefaced a question by saying Biden has “apologized for calling Laken Riley’s killer an ‘illegal.’”
“Does — does he feel like he needs to apologize to illegal immigrants for calling them what they are — or using the term ‘illegal’?” the reporter asked, according to a White House transcript.
Dalton went on the offensive:
“Well,
