Republicans react to claim First Lady wanted aides to cut into Biden’s last solo press conference

Republicans claim Jill Biden, 71, is her husband’s “nanny” after a report revealed the first lady was angry that no one intervened to stop President Joe Biden’s nearly two-hour press conference in January 2022.

Various GOP legislators weighed in on the report to Fox Newsincluding Senator Marsah Blackburn of Tennessee, who said it was just further “apparent” evidence that Biden, who turns 80 next month, “has no control over the White House” or its staff.

“Apparently the First Lady knows a train wreck when she sees one,” Georgia representative Austin Scott said in a statement to the network.

“I think everyone in the White House is concerned that the president will inadvertently reveal the true agenda of the Biden-Harris administration,” he added.

House GOP conference chair Elise Stefanik – the No. 3 Republican – said she “shouldn’t babysit the President of the United States when he talks to the media.”

“Apparently Joe Biden does,” she added in her response to Fox about Sunday’s New York Times Report.

The article noted that the first lady is “direct” with the communications agency and senior staff “when she believes they have failed to protect Biden.”

“She is incredibly protective of Mr. Biden and has been involved in hiring his press staff and other senior aides,” the article reads.

Jeff Van Drew, the Republican turned Republican, said, “The American people have appointed Joe Biden and deserve to hear directly from the President himself. Our country does not operate under surrogates in chief.’

“Apparently the First Lady knows a train wreck when she sees one,” said Georgia representative Austin Scott

A person who was in the room after Biden’s lengthy press conference surrounding the one-year anniversary of his inauguration said that Jill asked the assembled group, including the president, who was in charge of ending the press conference and why they had not intervened to keep them warm. on.

Texas Representative Ronny Jackson, a former White House physician, accused the first lady and senior staff of “a cover-up to protect their own interests.”

Jackson regularly takes a swipe at the president’s mental health and fitness for office.

“Bravo to the employee who exposed Joe Biden by confirming he’s not the one in charge of the White House,” Jackson told Fox News, adding that Jill was angry that her husband was allowed to “humiliate himself.”

“We all know that Joe Biden is incapable of making his own decisions and needs constant supervision,” Jackson continued in a fiery statement. “This administration has practically turned the White House into a nursing home.”

“As the physician to three US presidents, I know firsthand what it takes, both mentally and physically, to perform the most demanding job in the world. America and its allies cannot continue to have a cognitively disabled puppet as our commander in chief and leader of the free world,” Jackson said.

dr. Jill Biden has become one of her husband’s biggest surrogates on the campaign trail leading up to the 2022 midterms as his approval rating hovers around 40 and questions about his physical and mental fitness for the office continue to swirl amid a surge in gaffes. and stumbles.

House GOP conference chair Elise Stefanik said she didn’t think the ‘President of the United States wouldn’t need a nanny when talking to the media’