Alert – Karine Jean Pierre UNLEASHES at reporter for asking about Biden’s freezing episodes: US politics live updates

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre unleashed at a reporter asking about Biden’s bizarre freezing-up incidents over the past week.

‘They are cheap fakes video. They are done in bad faith,’ she said.

Jean-Pierre was further pressed over a video last week showing Biden freezing during a Juneteenth concert on the White House lawn.

‘The president stood there listening to the music and he didn’t dance.’

‘Excuse me, I did not know that not dancing was a mental..was a health issue,’ she fired back. ‘That is a weird thing to actually flag.’

She was also asked about Biden wandering off from the pack during the G7, which prompted Italian PM Meloni to grab his arm and guide him back to the group.

‘That was a cheap fake, that was definitely a cheap fake,’ she responded, citing a number of ‘fact checks’ about what happened during the strange incident.

Jean-Pierre was also asked by DailyMail.com about the most recent incident from over the weekend where Biden froze at a Hollywood fundraiser and had to get led off the stage by former President Barack Obama.

‘And he said this did not happen in the sense of what people were saying, saying they were seeing right, or what was being falsely reported,’ she insisted to DailyMail.com.

‘Let’s not forget President Obama, President Biden have a relationship. They are friends. They’re like family to each other. And I think that’s what you saw.’

‘You saw the President put his hand behind the, on the back of President Biden and they walked off the stage after taking questions or at an event taking questions from Jimmy Kimmel. That is that is what you saw.’

With a switchup in GOP leadership, Republicans are upset that they’ve lost a smoking hideaway near the House floor.

When Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., chaired the Rules Committee, he often invited Republican members into the ‘hideaway’ office just off the House floor to smoke cigars – to the chagrin of reporters whose press gallery above the House floor reeked of the smell at all hours of the day.

But now that he chairs the Appropriations Committee, he’s let the former chairwoman keep her hideaway off the House floor – and she doesn’t smoke cigars. New Rules Chairman Michael Burgess, R-Texas, hasn’t continued the smoke-friendly tradition in his new oasis off the House floor.

‘We desperately need a place to smoke cigars. and I do not have and should not have the chairman’s office right now … because Kay Granger needs that and that’s the appropriate thing to do,’ Cole”We desperately need a place to smoke cigars. and I do not have and should not have the chairman’s office right now … because Kay Granger needs that and that’s the appropriate thing to do,’ Cole told Axios.

‘It was great to meet with President Trump today at Mar-a-Lago. Our Party is united, and working together, I am confident we will send President Trump back to the White House, win back the Senate, and grow our House Republican majority!’ the speaker wrote on X.

It was his second meeting with Trump within a week: last week the former president came to Capitol Hill to meet with House Republicans.

They discussed the election and their potential governing agenda in 2025, should Trump win the presidency and Republicans keep hold on the House.

President Barack Obama visited a group of about 80 social media influencers over the weekend to talk about the importance of creating more content for Joe Biden.

He was met by Harry Daniels who sang him a song about the ‘New Americana.’

Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson are meeting currently at Mar-a-Lago, along with National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) chair Rich Hudson.

They are discussing the election and their potential governing agenda in 2025, should Trump win the presidency and Republicans keep hold on the House.

The meeting was scheduled for 1 p.m. and there will be no news conference after this time.

Last week they met on Capitol Hill when Trump visited House Republicans.

During that meeting, Trump told Majorie Taylor Greene to ‘be nice’ to the speaker.

Greene tried to oust Johnson as speaker in May, but her effort spectacularly failed after Trump told her it was ‘not the time’ for her motion.

A one time close confidant of Melania Trump made an eyebrow-raising claim about the former First Lady’s relationship with Donald Trump amid swirling rumors about the pressures on their marriage.

Stephanie Winstom Wolkoff, who once served as a senior adviser to Melania Trump, posted a clip on X on Sunday from The Apprentice that paints Trump as a family man.

The video shows Melania Trump carrying her son Barron as a baby outside an opulent home. She goes to greet Trump saying ‘daddy’s coming home’ as Trump pulls up in a convertible and says ‘hi honey.’

‘Many may think “DADDY’S HOME” is a Father’s Day video. Nope!,’ Winston Wolkoff wrote on X.

‘Millions of Americans watched the Apprentice. Donald was a household name. He needed a woman who looked & played the part & let him be the star. Marrying Melania & making her a Vogue Cover model —legitimized them both.’

The Education Department announced the University of Michigan did not adequately respond to anti-Israel discrimination complaints on campus.

In addition, the City University of New York (CUNY) was also found to have a lackluster response to complaints of discrimination and antisemitic harassment since the 2019-2020 school year.

‘Hate has no place on our college campuses—ever,’ said Education Secretary Miguel Cardona in a statement. ‘Sadly, we have witnessed a series of deeply concerning incidents in recent months.’

‘There’s no question that this is a challenging moment for school communities across the country.  The recent commitments made by the University of Michigan and CUNY mark a positive step forward,’ he added.

House Speaker Mike Johnson and Majority Leader Steve Scalise demanded the U.S. Office of the Special Counsel (OSC) conduct a probe into whether IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler were retaliated against in a new letter.

Both Ziegler and Shapley have open retaliation complains with the OSC.

They also demanded a briefing ‘to determine whether there has been improper influence in the IRS whistleblowers’ claims pending before OSC.’

Lawyers for Hunter Biden filed, and then quickly deleted, a demand for a new trial after he was found guilty on charges related to lying on a form for purchasing a handgun.

Lawyers filed a new motion withdrawing their motion seeking a new trial nearly immediately after the first filing appeared, a Delaware court’s web site notes.

‘The Motion for a New Trial (formerly DI 233) has been deleted at the request of counsel,’ according to the ‘correcting entry.’

The legal confusion comes after the president’s son was found guilty of three criminal charges in his blockbuster gun and drugs trial.

Barack Obama has revealed that his daughters, Malia and Sasha, have no plans to follow in his footsteps because his wife, Michelle, ‘drilled it into them’ early on that they would be ‘crazy to go into politics.’

Malia, now 25, and Sasha, now 23, spent eight years of their childhood living in the White House after their dad served as the 44th President of the United States from 2009.

Since then, many have wondered if they’d grow up to be leaders like their father, but now, the former President has revealed that the two young women have absolutely no interest in entering the cut-throat world of politics.

McCarthy antagonist Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., suggested therapy would be ‘cheaper’ than spending millions to oust those who voted for a motion to vacate him from the speakership.

Nancy Mace won her primary against Catherine Templeton last week, despite a McCarthy-aligned PAC dumping millions into the race against Mace.

Gaetz initially launched the motion to vacate and is facing a McCarthy-supported challenger in his primary in August.

Former President Donald Trump said he hired Apprentice star Omarosa as a White House aide as an ‘experiment’ and fired her because everybody ‘hated’ her and she was ‘late all the time.’

In the forthcoming book, Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass, Variety’s Co-Editor-in-Chief Ramin Setoodeh talked to Trump about Omarosa’s White House dismissal for the first time.

‘I saw her very little in the White House. The White House is a very big place! It’s buildings, actually. But the people hated her in Washington,’ he said.

‘Her personality – she was late all the time. She wouldn’t show up,’ the ex-president continued. ‘Look, I tried to rehabilitate her reputation as an experiment.’

The Biden campaign is going after Donald Trump as a convicted felon as they gear up for the blockbuster first presidential debate.

On Monday, Biden’s team announced a new ad titled 'Character Matters' as part of a $50 million ad blitz for the month of June. The ad will run in battleground states.

In the 30-second spot, the narrator takes direct aim at Trump for his criminal status and civil cases while contrasting him with Biden.

‘In the courtroom, we see Donald Trump for who he is. He’s been convicted of 34 felonies, found liable for sexual assault and he committed financial fraud,’ the narrator says as images of Trump in court play across the screen.

It then goes on to tout Biden lowering health care costs and making big corporations pay up.

‘This election is between a convicted criminal who’s only out for himself and a president who’s fighting for your family,’ the narrator says.

But some believe Democrats focusing on Trump’s criminal status could backfire as it has served as a fundraising boon and some polls have not found the guilty verdict to have moved the needle.

Biden posted a video from his meeting with the pontiff on X on Monday.

In the clip, Biden said: ‘Every time I’d walk out of my grandfather Finnegan’s house, he’d yell, “Joey, keep the faith,” and my grandmother said, “No, Joey, spread it.”‘

‘God bless you,’ the pope said back to Biden.

A conservative journalist has claimed she was discriminated against on an American Airlines flight because of her ‘Make America Great Again’ hat.

Self-employed reporter Heather Mullins aired the alleged saga on X Sunday, following a first-class trip from Detroit to Philadelphia.

She claimed an unnamed female flight attendant skipped her when taking drink orders, and that when asked about it, she responded snidely.

A key group of Independent voters say Donald Trump’s conviction makes them less likely to support him – in a new poll with mixed results for the former president.

In an election where most base voters have made up their mind, 21 percent of Independents say Trump’s conviction on charges of falsifying business records make them less likely to support him. Just 5 percent of Independents say it makes them more likely to support him, according to a new Politico / Ipsos survey.

But Trump’s attacks on prosecutors also appear to have sunk in. Although a 51 percent majority disagreed that the Manhattan DA brought the charges in the Stormy Daniels case to gain political advantage for Biden, 43 percent agreed with the statement.

Among Independents, 44 percent agreed with the statement, while 50 per cent disagreed.

The data comes as the Biden campaign released a new campaign ad highlighting Trumps’ felony conviction, while former President Barack Obama stressed it at a big bucks campaign fundraiser in Los Angeles.

Party insiders concede there’s a way to get Joe Biden to step down from his reelection campaign – if former presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama team up with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and ask him to leave.

Eight years into his state lawmaker career, Pennsylvania state Rep. Ryan Mackenzie misrepresented his age on a dating profile by nearly a decade, DailyMail.com can reveal.

In March 2020, Mackenzie, a Republican, was messaging women from a Tinder profile claiming to be 29 years old. He was actually 37.

His family had been in politics for decades at the time. He’d already briefly ran for Congress in 2018 and had represented the Lehigh Valley in the state house since 2012 alongside his mother, state Rep. Milou Mackenzie.

Donald Trump appeared to take a swipe at Rory McIlroy following his meltdown at the US Open on Sunday – while also gushing over eventual champion Bryson DeChambeau.

McIlroy allowed his best chance to end a painful 10-year wait for a fifth major title slip through his fingers at Pinehurst on Sunday.

The Northern Irishman led by two shots with five holes to play but amazingly missed from two feet and six inches for par on the 16th and less than four feet on the 18th to suffer another heartbreaking loss.

It allowed DeChambeau, the big-hitting American who plays on the Saudi-backed LIV Golf, to claim his second US Open title on an extraordinary final day in North Carolina.

Trump, who has close ties to LIV and has been seen at a handful of their events in recent years, posted a congratulatory message to his fellow American on Truth Social on Sunday night and appeared to dig out McIlroy.

The host of the first presidential debate of 2024 general election season has released new details on the rules for what could be the most consequential political event of the year, and one of those regulations appears to take direct aim at Donald Trump.

In a new step since Trump and President Biden came face-to-face during the last presidential election, microphones will be muted throughout the debate except when it is a candidate’s turn to speak.

The decision to mute mics comes after the presidential debates in 2020 went off the rails at times with Trump speaking over Biden to the point where past moderates had to step in to little avail.

White House spokesperson Andrew Bates is denying that Biden froze in viral video at a fundraiser over the weekend.

He calls it a ‘cheap fake memo’ being spewed by the media.

‘As is often the case with recent ‘cheap fake’ stories, the Republican National Committee first posted a misleading clip to its RNC Research account on X that cut most of the lead-up to the seemingly innocuous moment.’

He went on to slam the ‘deceptively edited clip’ being used by media outlets.

President Joe Biden appeared to freeze on stage after giving remarks at a star-studded fundraiser in Los Angeles on Saturday night before his old boss took him by the arm and pulled the president away.

The incident captured on video is the latest in a series of episodes that have plagued 81-year-old Biden as he mounts a second bid for the White House.

In the video, Biden and Obama are seen waving and smiling while receiving a standing ovation in the Peacock Theater in downtown Los Angeles.

Biden applauds and gives the audience a thumbs up but then he stops moving as he stares out over the crowd for several long seconds.

That’s when Obama, still smiling and waving, takes Biden by the wrist and gives him a gentle tug. That’s when the president appears to snap out of it.

Sen. J.D. Vance cemented his status as frontrunner to become Donald Trump’s running mate on Sunday, coming top in a poll of attendees at Turning Point Action’s People's Convention in Detroit.

Trump’s pick is the subject of feverish speculation and the grassroots had its say with a poll run over the three day gathering of activists.

When 1,986 people at the Detroit event were asked who they favored out of Vance, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum and Sens. Marco Rubio and Tim Scott, some 43 percent said they favored senator from Ohio.

Scott was a distant second on 15.4 percent, Rubio took third with 7.7 percent, and Burgum, who in particular has been talked up by Trump in recent weeks, took seven percent.

The poll was conducted by Big Data Poll for Turning Point Action, the grassroots movement founded by Charlie Kirk.