Kinda like ballot counts, eh Joe?
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Joe Biden privately apologized and vowed to 'do better' to a group of Muslim Americans for casting 'excessive skepticism' over the number of Palestinian deaths released by the Hamas-run Ministry of Health.
The president, 81, faced five community figureheads who were furious one day after he publicly dismissed a Palestinian death toll on October 25. One person organizing the meeting said the process was a 's**tshow.'
At the press conference at the White House, Biden - who has been steadfast in his support of Israel since October 7 - said: 'I have no notion that the Palestinians are telling the truth about how many people are killed.'
The next day on October 26, Biden had fraught discussions with five community public figures who were incensed by his comments. Their group back-and-forth went over Biden's allotted scheduled time by 30 minutes.
All five attendees had been hand-picked by the White House.
The guest list included, according to the Washington Post: Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, Chicago-based Rami Nashashibi, interfaith leader Imam Mohamed Magid, Muslim lobbyist Wa'el Alzayat, and health-care advocate Suzanne Barakat.
One person involved in the talks told the Post: 'Why are you sitting down with him without any agreement that he's going to retract that statement and apologize?
'What seat at the table are you negotiating, the toilet seat?'
One participant, speaking to the Post, said the goal was to press Biden on the issue of ceasefire. The invitees were 'livid' that Biden was debating the fatality data just one day before - rather than accepting that thousands were being killed in Gaza. |
