White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre walked out of the briefing room on Thursday after a strained back-and-forth with Fox News reporter Jacqui Heinrich.
Heinrich had said to the press secretary, “This administration messaged to millions of Americans that they’re going to wake up day after the election if Trump won and have their rights stripped away, that democracy would crumble. And the president said today, ‘We’re going to be OK.’”
“So how do you square it?” the reporter asked.
“I can square that,” Jean-Pierre replied.
“The American people made the decision,” she added. “There was an election two nights ago. There was. And it was a free and fair election, and we respect the election process.”
“Americans spoke, and so the job of the president is to make sure we respect that,” she continued. “The job of the president is to make sure that we have a peaceful transfer of power. That is what the American people deserve, and that’s what we’re…
