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The White House press briefing returned Thursday for the first time in eight days and, along with questions about the zero interactions between the press and outgoing President Biden during his six-day trip to South America, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre embarrassed herself with meandering, stumbling answers about both her successor Karoline Leavitt in the second Trump administration and layoffs inside the Democratic Party.

CNN’s M.J. Lee had a blunt question about Biden and the press, which Jean-Pierre predictably scoffed at:

In a follow-up Lee explained why she asked what she did: “If all of that is true, why on a six-day foreign trip where the President obviously had a robust American press corps traveling with him, did he not have a single engagement whether it is a press conference or maybe just speaking on the tarmac or really anywhere where he took questions from the press?”

Jean-Pierre’s defense? Well, Biden really wanted to spend as much time as possible “engaging and — and listening, having that one-on-one engagement” with world leaders.

Lee unsuccessfully tried one last time, seemingly incredulous: “Just to be clear, you mean the explanation is that he — on this trip was extra busy meeting with world leaders because this is one of his, you know, last foreign trips?”

This bled into a second line of questioning about the sincerity of Biden’s drumbeat (along with his party) that President-Elect Trump is a danger to democracy and that Americans should take action on this:

Later in the briefing, Bloomberg’s Jenny Leonard fact-checked this insistence Biden was too busy:

McClatchy’s Michael Wilner had a simple question about whether Jean-Pierre has spoken to Leavitt. Click the tweet to see the monstrosity of an answer that she managed to stretch a simple no into nearly 90 seconds of mumbling and stumbling:

theGrio’s April Ryan — who would be near the top of any hypothetical list of potential leading Leavitt adversaries — followed up on Leavitt by whining about how “there was a period of time where we had no press briefings” during the first Trump presidency (especially under the tenure of Biden-Harris supporter Stephanie Grisham, but we digress) and whether Jean-Pierre would be upset if things changed:

Fox’s Mark Meredith closed things out with two stinging topics. First, he brought up a possible case of the Biden-Harris regime working to preemptively undermine a Trump-Vance border policy:

The other topic concerned unions and, in Doocy-like fashion, used a solidified administrative policy stance (or, as is often the case, a remark or statement) to ask a hardball. This one hit close to Biden as it concerned a unionized workforce:

Jean-Pierre wasn’t amused by Meredith’s final question: “Does it look bad for the Vice President to go Hawaii while DNC staffers are just wondering what they’re going to do for work?”

A disgusted Jean-Pierre packed her binder, telling him that Harris “deserves some time to be with her family and to have some down time” after having “worked very hard over the last four years[.]”

“Good for her. Good for her,” she concluded.

Going back to the beginning of the briefing, NBC’s Monica Alba asked about the transgender bathroom hubbub at the Capitol:

To see the relevant transcript from the November 21 briefing, click here.