Psaki Claims Biden Was Not Looking at His Watch During Ceremony for Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan

Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki is pushing a brazen lie about President Joe Biden in her new book “Say More.”

Axios’ Alex Thompson noted Psaki “claims in her new book that President Biden never looked at his watch during the ceremony for soldiers killed during the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 — contradicting news photos and firsthand accounts of Gold Star families.”

The book claims Biden “looked at his watch only after the ceremony had ended. Moments later, he and the First Lady headed toward their car,” Thompson reports.

The report points out photographs from the day and fact-checks have shown Biden, in fact, did look at his watch during the ceremony. Additionally, Psaki’s book misquotes an article from the USA Today — which she cited as The Washington Post — to prove her claim, but the actual article stated, “Photos and video show also checked his watch during the ceremony.”

Additionally, Thompson noted on “Aug. 29, 2021, Shana Chappell, the mother of Marine Lance Cpl. Kareem Nikoui, wrote on Facebook: “I watched you disrespect us all 5 different times by checking your watch!!! What the f*** was so important that you had to keep looking at your watch????”

In a statement after Axios published its report, Psaki said there is “detail in a few lines of the book about the exact number of times he looked at his watch will be removed in future reprints and the ebook.”