Jen Psaki to Remove False Account of Biden ‘Watch Check’ From Her New Book
Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki said on Monday that she will remove a passage from her new book Say More that falsely claims President Joe Biden never checked his watch during a ceremony for American troops killed during the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Psaki, now an MSNBC primetime host, was spurred to act after Axios reported that her recollection that “the president looked at his watch only after the ceremony had ended” was contradicted by news reports and firsthand accounts from Gold Star families at the time.
In what Axios described as the “latest instance of current and former Biden administration officials downplaying or misrepresenting controversial episodes from the Afghanistan withdrawal,” Psaki wrote in Say More that the president’s critics had engaged in “misinformation” by blasting him over the infamous photos of him looking at his watch.