White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki responded to a reporter from the right-wing website Newsmax who asked if President Joe Biden planned to fire U.S.
Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield over a speech that included a line about slavery and white supremacy at our nation’s founding.
At Friday’s daily briefing, reporter Emerald Robinson paraphrased a line from Thomas-Greenfield’s recent speech to the National Action Network, in which the ambassador said “I have seen for myself how the original sin of slavery weaved white supremacy into our founding documents and principles.” She then asked White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki “The statement is getting wildly criticized as essentially parroting Chinese Communist party