KJP embarrasses herself when she fumbles easy question about anti-Israel protesters ripping down hostage posters

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre issued a clarification Tuesday after she failed to dunk a layup question.

NBC News correspondent Peter Alexander asked Jean-Pierre at the press briefing about the viral videos of anti-Israel protesters ripping down posters of people kidnapped and held hostage by Hamas. The question was simple: Does the Biden administration condemn these actions or view them as a "peaceful protest"?

But Jean-Pierre completely fumbled the ball.

After some back-and-forth with Alexander, she answered, "I'm just not going to go into specifics on that particular thing."

Instead, Jean-Pierre said that top administration officials are "aware" of "violent protests and threats" — though she failed to provide any details about which protests or which threats — that they believe are "deeply concerning."

In a follow-up question, Alexander tried to gift Jean-Pierre an easy answer, asking if the "deeply concerning" behavior that she cited refers to anti-Israel protesters yanking down hostage posters. But Jean-Pierre rejected his kindness and repeated her previous answer about an "increased volume" of threats toward "the Jewish community to the Arab-American community, to the Muslim communities."

Jean-Pierre's answers were so bad that she was forced to issue a clarification after the briefing ended.

"As a result of the Hamas terrorist attacks, communities and families are grieving. For the past month, the families of those who have been taken hostage have lived in agony. Tearing down pictures of their loved ones — who are being held hostage by Hamas — is wrong and hurtful," she said.

It should go without saying: It's embarrassing that a clarification needed to be issued. It's not difficult activate a moral backbone when someone asks you to defend innocent lives that are in the hands of terrorists.

But it similarly required Alexander to ask Jean-Pierre multiple times about Palestinian activists who defaced the White House property over the weekend. However, she at least gave a definitive answer to his question about whether it was "appropriate" to do that, saying, "Obviously not."

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