White House officials on Sunday defended President Joe Biden’s demanding gas stations “bring down the price” for a gallon amid widespread criticism.
“I think anybody that knows President Biden knows he’s plain-spoken and he tells exactly what he’s thinking in terms that everybody can understand,” Kirby told on “Fox News Sunday” after he was shown a Twitter post from Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos, who asserted that Biden was engaging in “misdirection” or has a “deep misunderstanding of basic market dynamics.”
On Saturday, Biden wrote that “my message to the companies running gas stations and setting prices at the pump is simple: this is a time of war and global peril. Bring down the price you are charging at the pump to reflect the cost you’re paying for the product. And do it now.” From the president’s post, it’s not clear how gas stations would be able to bring down the price without taking significant losses….