How is this Trump’s fault?
President Biden’s White House press secretary Jen Psaki is now blaming former President Donald Trump and his “hate-filled rhetoric and language” during the COVID-19 pandemic for the uptick in hate crimes against Asians in the United States.
Psaki’s insane comments came after a reporter asked Psaki about Olympic snowboarder Chloe Kim who said she fears for her parents safety because they are asians in America. Kim also claimed that she was “tormented” for being Asian.
According to Fox, Psaki responded by saying, “The president has put into place a task force. He has hired a senior level staffer to be a representative and speak to these threats, the concerns and these fears felt by the Asian American community. There’s a number of steps we need to take, and continue to take, to address.”
She then pointed to finger at Trump and said, “We’ve seen this rise unfortunately because of hate filled rhetoric and language around the origins of the pandemic. That is something that Asian Americans across the country have been feeling.”
Psaki then continued to hammer Trump and said, “There’s no question that some of the damaging rhetoric we saw during the prior administration — calling COVID ‘the Wuhan virus’ or other things — led to perceptions of the Asian American community that are inaccurate, unfair, have elevated threats against Asian Americans.”