Joe Biden
US President with embarrassing microphone breakdown
Joe Biden accidentally revealed too much at a press conference.
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Joe Biden was apparently not aware that his microphone was still on: everyone was allowed to hear what he thought about reporter Peter Doocy…
US President Joe Biden (79) apparently noticed too late that his microphone was still on. After a press event in the White House, some of those present were able to hear what he thought about reporter Peter Doocy (34) from Fox News. According to US media reports, Biden said about him: “What a stupid son of a bitch”.
Doocy had previously asked Biden on his way out if high inflation could hurt him in the midterm elections. “No, that’s a big advantage. More inflation,” the president is said to have said ironically in a low voice before the insulting words apparently followed.
Peter Doocy remains calm
Doocy himself takes the incident calmly. According to “People” he betrayed the moderator Sean Hannity (60) on his show that Biden contacted him on his cell phone “within about an hour of this exchange” to discuss what happened.
According to Doocy, Biden explained that “it was nothing personal”. The US President encouraged him to continue to ask different questions than everyone else. “So I’ll continue,” said the reporter. Doocy also declared of Biden: “I don’t need anyone to apologize to me. He can call me whatever he wants as long as it makes him talk!”
On the show “The Five” Doocy had According to Fox News also said, he had not heard the insult himself, only a little later someone would have told him. When moderator Jesse Watters (43) teased him and joked that Biden was right about Doocy, he replied: “Yes, nobody has done a fact check and said it’s not true.”