Karine Jean-Pierre devoted the start of her first press briefing as White House Press Secretary on Monday by paying tribute to the 10 victims of the mass shooting in Buffalo, NY, as authorities point to the suspect’s embrace of a ‘great replacement” theory that elites are “replacing” white voters with more obedient non-white immigrants.Jean-Pierre, though, declined to specially name any politicians or Fox News host Tucker Carlson who have espoused some version of “replacement theory,” to the condemnation of groups like the Anti-Defamation League.ABC News’ Cecilia Vega asked, “On this notion that immigrants or others are believed to be by some ‘taking over’ and pushing white people out of positions of authority in this country, which is at the heart of so much of this terror that is being spewed online, does the White House believe these views are being amplified by Tucker Carlson?”Jean-Pierre said, “We are still figuring out the motivation of all of this, and we are very clear.
As you all know, watching what happened in Charlottesville was a major factor in the president deciding to run, back in 2017.
Many of those dark voices exist today, and the president is determined as he was back then, and he is determined today, to make sure that we fight back against those forces of hate and evil and violence.
So that is what we are going to keep doing.”Later, CNN”s MJ Lee asked Jean-Pierre why the White House did not want to call out any names. “Does that come from the president himself?”Jean-Pierre responded, “No, because it doesn’t matter who it is.
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