President Joe Biden addressed reporters on the war between Hamas and Israel on Wednesday, particularly underscoring the human tragedy.
While addressing reporters, he paused often during his statement and stared blankly before continuing.
“Virtually every… mass shooting… every… circumstance where… large number of people have been victimized and lost, I spoke to them… I learned a long time ago, but you all learned in your life as well… when someone’s going through something that is beyond their comprehension…if they see someone who they think understands,” he said in staccato fashion.
“You know I always get criticized sometimes by my staff because when I go to these events I stay for 3 or 4 hours and answer all their questions,” he added.
This is certainly an overstatement, since Biden’s administration has been marked by several times when the president refused to answer questions from reporters and the public.
President Biden also walked a statement back that he made regarding U.S. intelligence’s preliminary assessments that the terror group Islamic Jihad is likely behind the bombing of a parking lot near a Christian hospital in Gaza.
BIDEN: “I’m not suggesting that Hamas deliberately did it … [They] gotta learn how to