White House Communications Director Ben LaBolt got roasted for defending President Joe Biden’s Maui response – namely because he claimed that critics were only complaining about Biden “petting a rescue dog.”
MSNBC host Joe Scarborough started the White House down that path on Wednesday morning, citing a Maui newspaper article praising Biden and claiming that complaints about Biden’s widely-panned response to the wildfires in Maui amounted to “garbage” coming solely from right-wing critics.
White House Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates quoted Scarborough’s response, saying, “You look at the local newspapers, you look at the local reports, you listen to the local people. These aren’t Democratic operatives. It was the Maui newspaper. Everybody in these newspapers glowing.”
.@JoeNBC: The rightwing coverage of @POTUS‘s Maui trip “was all garbage. You look at the local newspapers, you look at the local reports, you listen to the local people. These aren’t Democratic…