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Reporter Calls Out Biden State Dept. For Taking Credit For Trump Successes

During a press briefing this week State Department Spokesman Ned Price boasted about the administration’s work to scale back the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline from Russia to Germany.

Observers have pointed out that the project would double the amount of natural gas imported from Russia and thus would leave Europe more dependent on Russian energy than ever before.

Price, highlighting a report sent to Congress that said some 18 entities have engaged in "good faith efforts" to scale back their involvement in the project.

He said the effort “demonstrates that the legislative goals and our actions are having a good effect.”

However Associated Press reporter Matt Lee chimed in to point out that this was started under the Trump administration.

Lee told Price:

“you guys have only been in office for a month, right? Are you telling me that in the last four weeks these 18 companies all of the sudden decided to say, ‘Oh my God! We better not doing anything with Nord Stream 2. 
You guys are taking credit for stuff the previous administration did. Yes or no?" 

Price then sort of walked back his previous comments by saying he was merely speaking on behalf of the State Department – occupied by the same people since before Biden took office.

Despite working for the left-leaning AP, Matt Lee has been a very fair reporter. During the Obama years, he regularly and repeatedly challenged the administration over the crap they were pushing.

Here’s one example of him challenging Jen Psaki on the Obama administration’s transparency.


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