Jen Psaki Forced To Retract False Book Claim

Ex-White House press secretary Jen Psaki is being forced to retract a false claim in her new book that President Biden did not check his watch during the dignified transfer of 13 US troops killed in the Afghanistan withdrawal.

In her May 2024 book “Say More,” Psaki attacked her former boss’s critics, who she said seized on the callous moment to make “him appear insensitive, concerned only about how much time had passed,” claiming he “only looked at his watch after the ceremony had ended.”

Axios first reported on the book’s inaccuracy. Photos, videos and media fact-checkers at the time of the ceremony had already confirmed Biden’s heartless action.

Psaki later acknowledged to Axios that the “detail in a few lines of the book about the exact number of times he looked at his watch will be removed in future reprints and the ebook” — without commenting on her claim’s inaccuracy.

“The story on Afghanistan is really about the importance of delivering feedback even when it is difficult told through my own experience of telling President Biden that his own story of loss was not well received by the families who were grieving their sons and daughters,” Psaki added to the outlet.

A press rep for Scribner, which published the White House tell-all, confirmed that the text “will be corrected in the e-book and future printings, due to inaccuracies as originally written.”

Six Gold Star family members in an exclusive interview with The NY Post on Monday had demanded a retraction and an apology from Psaki for inaccurately writing that the highly watched moment was nothing more than “misinformation.”

“It needs to be removed,” said Darin Hoover, whose son, Marine Staff Sgt. Taylor Hoover, 31, was killed in the blast from an ISIS-K suicide bombing at Hamid Karzai International Airport’s Abbey Gate in Kabul.