Karine Jean-Pierre takes exception to Trump using ‘bloodbath,’ but can’t explain why Biden can use it.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre claimed former President Donald Trump’s recycled use of the word “bloodbath” in reference to a surge in illegal alien crime somehow endangers Americans.
“We have to denounce any violent rhetoric that we hear, certainly from our leaders, that tears our country apart and puts our fellow Americans in harm’s way,” Jean-Pierre told a reporter.
The reporter’s question came as President Trump held a campaign event labeled “Biden Border Bloodbath” in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Tuesday.
Fox News reporter Peter Doocy followed up by asking why it’s violent rhetoric when Trump uses the word “bloodbath,” but not when Biden uses the term, as he has in the past.
“Karine, just a quick point of clarification, Karine. So, when Donald Trump is talking about a bloodbath, it is violent rhetoric. What was it when Joe Biden said in 2020, we — ‘what we can’t let happen is let this primary become a negative bloodbath’?” Doocy asked.
KJP stammered that Doocy should go read the context behind Trump’s use of the term.
The mainstream media clutched their pearls last month when Trump used the expression in reference to the collapsing auto industry and how it would altogether fail if Biden wins re-election, predicting it would be an economic “bloodbath.”
