GOP representative questions if Biden admin colluded with media after president’s cheat sheet exposed

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Jake Ellzey questioned whether or not a cue card with speaking factors that President Biden used concerned collusion with the media and recommended that different individuals are “calling the photographs.”

A photograph confirmed that Biden held a observe card throughout a information briefing Monday. The cardboard included ready responses to a query asking what the president meant when he mentioned earlier that Russian President Vladimir Putin couldn’t stay in energy.

“The query I’ve is, have been these questions that he had on the observe card planted by anyone else after which referred to by the media?” Ellzey, a Texas Republican, mentioned throughout an interview with Fox Information. “That will present collusion with the media.”

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“I believe he has a crew that he depends on greater than I might if I have been the president,” Ellzey informed Fox Information. “I believe that there are some individuals calling the photographs that we do not know who they’re, and so they should be briefing us on what they’re advising the president on what he ought to be doing.”

The president has beforehand made remarks which have led critics to query if somebody is giving Biden orders. In September, for instance, he mentioned he was “alleged to cease and stroll out of the room” after he completed ready remarks.

Biden mentioned Saturday that Putin “can not stay in energy.” He made the impromptu remark throughout a speech in Poland throughout which he known as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine a “strategic failure.”

Administration officers, together with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, clarified that the U.S. shouldn’t be searching for regime change.

Biden, echoing statements on his observe card, mentioned Monday that he was expressing outrage, fairly than suggesting coverage change.

President Joe Biden declares his Price range for Fiscal 12 months 2023, which can scale back deficits by greater than $1 trillion over the subsequent decade, advance security and safety at house and all over the world, and make the investments wanted to construct a greater America in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 14, 2022.
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Ellzey famous that politicians usually depend on observe playing cards to remain on message.  

“Particularly on the presidential stage, each phrase that he says goes to be scrutinized, gone over by each world chief, as a result of it has impression,” Ellzey informed Fox Information. “He went off message, and it bought him in bother.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into regulation laws that would punish journalists with as much as 15 years in jail for reporting so-called “pretend” information about his navy invasion of Ukraine.       
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Ellzey added that Biden must “use plenty of thought earlier than he opens his mouth” because the scenario in Ukraine is so delicate and since the president’s statements carry a lot affect.

Intelligence officers have warned that Putin might flip to nuclear or chemical weapons since Ukraine has been so efficient at preventing off the Russian invaders.

A Kremlin spokesperson mentioned Biden’s feedback have been “alarming.” French President Emmanuel Macron recommended that they weren’t useful for peace talks between Moscow and Kyiv.