“When I heard this briefing was happening, I basically crashed and invited myself,” Psaki began, and then spoke about the importance of the federal government calling out Russians for spreading false information online.
“If you look back at 2014, and even frankly even 2016 when Russia invaded Ukraine and 2016 when they hacked our election here, we did not do that, we did not declassify information,” she said.
However, there is absolutely no evidence to show that Russians’ efforts affected the election, according to Senate Intelligence Committee’s Russia report.
“We’ve called them these sort of ‘false flags’ or setting up false pretexts, which is basically their effort to justify an invasion and justify all of the military action you’ve seen them take,” Psaki continued.
“Let me just go down a nerd rabbit hole for like 30 seconds and then I’ll come back out I promise, but I feel like this is a safe nerd place,” she said before going on a rant about inflation and then blaming Russian president Vladimir Putin for the price of gas spiking.
“Right now. Inflation is supposed to moderate, and that means come back down at the end of the year,” Psaki added.
She then attempted to make it seem as though Americans paying more for gas is for some sort of high morale: “It’s because of what President Putin is doing but also because you live in a country where we are rallying the world to stand up against that and that is part of our values and that is part of who we are.”
Less than ten percent of the gasoline in the United States is imported from Russia. To try to blame their invasion of Ukraine for these prices is flat out deceit.
Hey Psaki, why not reopen our pipelines?
Listen to the briefing here:
