White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Sept. 6 defended claiming in the past that the 2016 election was stolen.
“Stolen emails, stolen drone, stolen election …..welcome to the world of #unpresidented Trump,” Jean-Pierre wrote on Twitter on Dec. 17, 2016, after Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton.
“Reminder: Brian Kemp stole the gubernatorial election from Georgians and Stacey Abrams,” Jean-Pierre wrote on Twitter in 2020, referring to the claim that Kemp cheated Abrams in the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial race.
Peter Doocy, a Fox News reporter, asked Jean-Pierre on Tuesday about the 2016 election during a White House press briefing.
“I’m not going to go back to where we were, or 2016. We’re going to focus on the here and now. We’re going to focus on what’s happening today,” Jean-Pierre said….