How much will the White House have to walk back after President Joe Biden’s trip to Asia?
We’ve already seen his aides essentially retract a comment the president made during a Monday news briefing that seemed to inch us closer to World War III.
Now, comments Biden made earlier in the same briefing — which seemed to indicate soaring gas prices will be the new norm — are coming under scrutiny.
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The remarks came after the president was asked whether a recession in the United States was inevitable during a joint news conference with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Tokyo.
A stammering Biden began by attempting to tout “the significant progress we’ve made in making sure we don’t have supply chain backups” and “the situation where we — we’ve created over 8 million new jobs, where unemployment is down to 3.6 percent, and so on and so forth,” claiming people were discussing them “as if they’re a problem.
“Imagine where we’d be with Putin’s tax and the war in Ukraine had we not made that enormous progress,” Biden said.
Ah yes, that darned “Putin tax” again. The president has claimed on many occasions that the Kremlin is responsible for Americans’ pain at the pump, despite the fact that the price for a gallon of gas jumped from $2.379 the week Biden took office to $3.530 the week before Russian leader Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
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