{"id":14756,"date":"2023-06-29T04:44:19","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T09:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=14756"},"modified":"2023-06-29T04:44:24","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T09:44:24","slug":"biden-roasted-for-joking-i-sold-a-lot-of-state-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=14756","title":{"rendered":"Biden roasted for joking: &#8216;I sold a lot of state secrets&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>President Joe Biden is being slammed online for joking about selling state secrets as critics question his mental status and whether he was confessing to a crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I sold a lot of state secrets and a lot of very important things that we shared,&#8221; Biden said at the start of a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2023\/06\/23\/remarks-by-president-biden-and-prime-minister-modi-of-the-republic-of-india-in-meeting-with-senior-officials-and-ceos-of-technology-companies\/\">meeting<\/a>&nbsp;with Indian Prime Minister&nbsp;Narendra Modi last week. &#8220;Now, all kidding aside \u2014 look, we\u2019re teaming up to design and develop new technologies.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1673436267634388992\">Republican National Committee<\/a>&nbsp;on Monday tweeted a video of Biden&#8217;s remarks, cutting the video before the president clarified he was &#8220;kidding.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/statuses\/1673436267634388992\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even though additional information was added to the RNC&#8217;s post by Twitter users, the video still generated online outrage from conservatives.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Joe Biden\u2019s brain is going and he\u2019s literally admitting his crimes out loud. Impeach Biden! It\u2019s unreal and so insulting to America,&#8221; Rep.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepMTG\/status\/1673446541523136513\">Marjorie Taylor Greene<\/a>, R-Ga., tweeted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Well, honest or in a fog of confusion? Where are you, Democrats? Speak up because we never hear from you on this topic,&#8221; former Rep.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jasoninthehouse\/status\/1673450433778536448\">Jason Chaffetz<\/a>, R-Utah, posted.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;They impeached Trump over a phone call,&#8221; Rep.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ByronDonalds\/status\/1673517510639902722\">Byron Donalds<\/a>, R-Fla., commented on the video, referring to how the House impeached then-President Donald Trump in 2019 in part due to comments he made on a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/6429034-White-House-memo-on-Trump-call-with-Ukraine.html\">phone call<\/a>&nbsp;with Ukrainian President&nbsp;Volodymyr Zelensky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biden made the joke as congressional Republicans are raising the alarm over&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/accountability\/russia-and-ukraine-scandals\/joe-biden-bribery-allegations-involve-ukraine-first\">allegations<\/a>&nbsp;that Biden and his family were involved in a multi-million-dollar bribery scheme involving a Ukrainian businessman who reportedly tried to influence U.S. policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/government\/white-house\/biden-roasted-joking-i-sold-lot-state-secrets\">Justthenews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden is being slammed online for joking about selling state secrets as critics question his mental status and whether he was confessing to a crime. &#8220;I sold a lot of state secrets and a lot of very important things that we shared,&#8221; Biden said at the start of a&nbsp;meeting&nbsp;with Indian Prime Minister&nbsp;Narendra Modi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":14757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9288,1169,4146,3301,9289],"class_list":["post-14756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-betrayal","tag-biden","tag-criticism","tag-joke","tag-state-secrets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14758,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14756\/revisions\/14758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}