(NewsInsights.org) – House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) ripped into President Joe Biden on X, formerly Twitter, on Sunday, March 10, for his deference to an alleged killer. Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) joined him in calling out the president for caring more about rhetoric than policy.
Biden delivered the State of the Union address on Thursday, March 7, responding to Johnson’s formal invitation to speak to the joint session of Congress. During his speech, the president veered off script in response to heckling from Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who repeatedly yelled at him to “say her name,” referring to Laken Riley, an Augusta University nursing student who police allege was murdered by a Venezuelan immigrant who Immigration and Customs Enforcement said entered the country illegally in September 2022.
Although he mispronounced her given name, calling her Lincoln instead of Laken, Biden described Riley as “an innocent young woman who was killed by an illegal.” On Saturday, Biden sat down with Jonathan Capeheat in an exclusive MSNBC interview. The two touched on the president’s unscripted remarks, and Biden affirmed that he regretted using the term “illegal” in his statement during the address. He corrected himself and said he should have used “undocumented.”
The president is cowering to his base and showing deference to a man who deserves none.
This man is an illegal immigrant who brutally murdered Laken Riley.
President Biden should be apologizing to Laken’s family.
What an embarrassment. pic.twitter.com/NhX0sxSbsM
— Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) March 10, 2024
In his post, Johnson noted the president was “cowering to his base” and showing respect to someone undeserving who allegedly brutalized and murdered an innocent young woman. Johnson suggested that if Biden really wanted to express regret, he could apologize to the Riley family. The Speaker finished his post by stating, “What an embarrassment.”
Scott met with Fox Host Maria Bartiromo on her Sunday Morning Futures broadcast. She asked whether he could explain Biden’s apology for his word choice. Scott exclaimed, “Disgusting!” saying, “No one can explain that.”
Scott went on to point out that Biden was more concerned about differentiating between illegal and undocumented than worrying about the circumstances that led to Riley’s murder and how it has affected her family. He added that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump would close the border and reinstate the Stay in Mexico policy instead of worrying about parsing rhetoric. Scott stressed the importance of taking tangible action.
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