White Home press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre says deploying the Nationwide Guard ‘is one thing that governors determine on.’
The White Home praised the actions of UNC-Chapel Hill fraternity brothers on Might 3 for safeguarding the American flag from protestors seeking to tear it down and exchange it with a Palestinian flag.
“All People have the precise to peacefully protest,” stated White Home press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, who deemed it “admirable” to guard the flag. “It’s not proper to forcefully forcefully take down the American flag to switch it with one other flag. It’s not proper.”
The White Home additionally affirmed the place taken by President Joe Biden in his Might 2 tackle on the continuing pro-Palestine protests on school campuses, particularly that whereas the administration stays dedicated to the rule of legislation, it additionally opposes the concept of activating the Nationwide Guard.
“That’s one thing that governors determine on,” Ms. Jean-Pierre stated of deploying the Nationwide Guard. She additionally stated that it’s the universities and faculties that determine whether or not or not police presence is the precise strategy to transfer ahead.
“We’ve got to comply with the rule of legislation,” she stated. “Violence shouldn’t be protected right here. However People have the precise to peacefully, peacefully protest throughout the legislation, and we’re going to be very constant right here.”
‘Biden’s Vietnam’?
Ms. Jean-Pierre repeated a number of occasions throughout the day’s press briefing that the White Home acknowledged that “it’s an extremely charged time” and a “charged surroundings.”
One reporter identified that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I–Vt.) just lately likened the present “charged” time to that in 1968 when school college students have been up in arms protesting Vietnam and the then-Democratic President Lyndon Johnson.
“I’m pondering again, and different individuals are making this reference that this can be Biden’s Vietnam,” Mr. Sanders advised CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Might 2, referring to President Biden’s reelection marketing campaign.
When requested for the White Home’s response to the feedback, Ms. Jean-Pierre began by saying, “I wish to be tremendous cautious as a result of that’s sort of main right into a marketing campaign area.”
“Joe Biden ended the longest warfare in American historical past and succeeded in convincing each events in Congress to make essential investments in our nationwide safety and Ukraine to assist guarantee we received’t be drawn into battle in Europe,” she stated.
“And that’s the president’s management that you just’ve seen, proper and that is without doubt one of the causes he’s been in a position to carry NATO collectively in a method that now we have not seen earlier than.”
Ms. Jean-Pierre went on to record an array of President Biden’s actions during the last three years, from taking motion in opposition to anti-Semitism and ensuring the “wealthy” pay their “fair proportion” to attempting to cancel scholar debt and tackling “Huge Pharma” and, constructing “an financial system that helps everybody.”
“These agendas are extremely widespread, and so he’s going to proceed to do this work,” she stated.
When requested outright if the White Home disagreed with that characterization, she stated, “They’ve their opinions, they usually’re allowed to their opinions and—and we respect—we respect with their opinions on this.”