President Joe Biden is being criticized after chuckling while discussing a sensitive issue.
While delivering remarks Wednesday, Biden reacted to a comment made by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) about security at the border.
“She was very specific recently, saying that a mom, a poor mother who lost two kids to fentanyl, that, that I killed her sons. Well, the interesting thing is that fentanyl they took came during the last administration,” Biden said with a chuckle.
Watch the video below:
Yesterday, a mom who lost her two sons to fentanyl poisoning told her story.
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) March 2, 2023
Today, Biden laughed about it. pic.twitter.com/USEbe4Ouhe
Twitter users were quick to point out Biden’s lack of sensitivity to the matter.
Comedian Tim Young wrote, “Just another day of Biden laughing at Americans in need…”
Just another day of Biden laughing at Americans in need… https://t.co/IcUcYWjc44
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) March 2, 2023
Columnist Liz Peek asked, “And [Joe Biden] is Mr. Empathy?”
She added, “What a horrible person.”
and @JoeBiden is Mr. Empathy? What a horrible person https://t.co/1M1fSG2Fh3
— Liz Peek (@lizpeek) March 2, 2023
Rapid response director for RNC research Tommy Pigott said, “What a disgusting thing to do. Especially from a president who has seen such an increase in fentanyl smuggling on his watch.”
https://twitter.com/TommyPigott/status/1631140454996508672
Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) added, “Shameful and embarrassing …”
Shameful and embarrassing … https://t.co/dWFF6UWvWI
— Senator Jim Banks (@SenatorBanks) March 2, 2023
Read more tweets below:
What a disgrace.@CTGOP
— Greenwich Republicans (@GreenwichRTC) March 2, 2023
https://twitter.com/pladomor/status/1631190447019159552
Yeah “haha it’s funny that it’s trumps fault your sons died”. What an embarrassment
— Literal Cup of Coffee (@DrKnthNoisewatr) March 2, 2023
Yes such a funny story
— Steve o/b/o Patrick (@rhainman) March 2, 2023
Shameful!
— UT Dad (@VolsRuleAllNow) March 2, 2023
Earlier this week, Greene posted a video of her conversation with mother and activist Rebecca Kiessling.
Two of her children died as a result of fentanyl on July 29, 2020.
“Listen to this mother, who lost two children to fentanyl poisoning, tell the truth about both of her son’s murders because of the Biden administrations refusal to secure our border and stop the Cartel’s from murdering Americans everyday by Chinese fentanyl,” Greene tweeted.
Listen to this mother, who lost two children to fentanyl poisoning, tell the truth about both of her son’s murders because of the Biden administrations refusal to secure our border and stop the Cartel’s from murdering Americans everyday by Chinese fentanyl. pic.twitter.com/HRD5SX0Td8
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene(@RepMTG) February 28, 2023
CNN published a fact check, saying Greene “wrongly suggested in the tweet that Kiessling had blamed the Biden administration for the death of her sons. In fact, Kiessling had explicitly told the committee the date of the tragedy, making clear that it happened with more than five months left in the presidency of Donald Trump.”
