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WH Responds To Biden Praising Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer Facing Termination Over Lack Of Vaccination
Daily Wire ^ | Oct 5, 2022 | Staff

Posted on 10/05/2022 5:49:12 AM PDT by Red Badger

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre dodged answering a question during Tuesday’s press briefing on the matter of President Joe Biden praising a group of Coast Guard rescue swimmers that included a guardsman who could face termination because he has not received a COVID vaccine.

Biden personally thanked a Coast Guardsman for saving a 94-year-old woman in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian, but the hero expects to be fired within days for rejecting the COVID vaccine, The Daily Wire reported. Aviation Survival Technician Second Class Zach Loesch earned praise in a Friday phone call from the commander in chief for kicking in a wall to save a trapped, wheelchair-bound woman and her husband.

“I told him how proud of him I was and thanked him for all the work he and his Coasties are doing to save lives,” Biden said in a press release that thanked Loesch and Lieutenant Commander Christopher Hooper “for the heroic work that they and their Coast Guard colleagues have performed during search and rescue operations in response to Hurricane Ian.”

But the next time Loesch hears from a federal official, it could be to learn his career is over. Loesch said in an interview that he had applied for a religious exemption to avoid taking the COVID vaccine but does not expect it to be honored.

Jean-Pierre was asked about the matter during Tuesday’s press briefing.

“The president recently praised a group of Coast Guard rescue swimmers. One of them reportedly faces termination because he isn’t vaccinated,” a reporter said. “I’m curious, given the threats that we’re facing abroad, would the president ever reconsider that vaccination requirement or consider issuing more exemptions?”

“So, as you — as — as you can imagine, the president has the most — the deepest respect for the U.S. Coast Guard,” Jean-Pierre claimed. “That is something that you would hear from him directly. And the country — the president and the country are grateful for all of the U.S. Coast Guard heroes that have led the effort to save lives in Florida. We have seen that with our very own eyes these past couple of days.”

“I would refer you specifically to the U.S. Coast Guard on this — on this issue, on this individual questions. It’s not something that I would comment from here,” she continued. “But, you know, there, of course, have been multiple vaccination requirements, as you know, in place for quite some time. And — but, again, I’m not going to comment here — from here on an individual case.”


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Military/Veterans; Society
KEYWORDS: biden

1 posted on 10/05/2022 5:49:12 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

“WH Responds To Biden”

Why is white house responding to Biden?


2 posted on 10/05/2022 5:52:58 AM PDT by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
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To: lowbridge
Why is white house responding to Biden?

Because Biden is not part of the White House

3 posted on 10/05/2022 5:54:13 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (We are being manipulated by forces that most do not see)
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To: lowbridge

It’s like someone with multiple personalities having an argument, fun to watch but terrifying


4 posted on 10/05/2022 5:56:25 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: Red Badger

“I told him how proud of him I was and thanked him for all the work he and his Coasties are doing to save lives,”

And then he fired him


5 posted on 10/05/2022 5:56:48 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: Red Badger

https://twitter.com/zn2_______/status/1577026189772099584?s=10


6 posted on 10/05/2022 5:57:03 AM PDT by nevermorelenore ( If My people will pray ....)
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To: Red Badger

Psycho retards have commandeered the bus and they are headed straight for the cliff.


7 posted on 10/05/2022 6:01:44 AM PDT by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: Erik Latranyi
Because Biden is not part of the White House

Even if he was mentis compos, which he isn't, he'd still be out of the loop.

8 posted on 10/05/2022 6:02:16 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: lowbridge

Is Biden responding to anyone?


9 posted on 10/05/2022 6:02:31 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Inside every leftist is a blood-thirsty fascist yearning to be free of current societal constraints.)
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To: lowbridge

Fact is nothing vegetable head’s handlers do is well thought out. They are on a time schedule to cripple America, time is short for them, and they know it.

From flooding America with illegals to rushing into a cashless digital currency, to destroying our military to placing immorality into every government office- like Satan himself- he knows his time is coming.

The world knows America is being destroyed, our enemies are queuing up for the kill. Biden ends up betraying everything he touches.


10 posted on 10/05/2022 6:03:02 AM PDT by delta7
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To: V_TWIN

She said she refers the question to the Coast Guard, but Biden is the commander in chief of the Coast Guard. So he can single handedly let the religious exemptions happen, or get rid of the vaccine mandate altogether, but of course, he won’t.


11 posted on 10/05/2022 6:04:52 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I wish “smart resume” would work for the real world so I could FF through the Burden admin BS.)
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To: Gen.Blather

It’s not like that at all.

Yes it is.

Oh, shut up, you!


12 posted on 10/05/2022 6:12:13 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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We never hear of military people who have died of covid- anyone have any Info on that? I doubt the numbers are very high at all, and the % will likely be extremely low, with most of those who might have died being elderly former military who had multiple health issue most likely. Mi,itsry folks are mostly young, healthy folks who are not at serious risk of covid, yet they are being fired for not getting vaccinated?

At this point,demanding vaccinations for ehat essentially is now nothing much more than a common cold is nothing but a pure powerplay y power drunk liberals


14 posted on 10/05/2022 6:34:09 AM PDT by Bob434 (question)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Yes, to the late Rep. Jackie Walorski


15 posted on 10/05/2022 6:36:10 AM PDT by Bob434 (question)
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To: Leep
Speaking of buses……My husband and I were talking about that time that all the biggest names in the Democrat party got on their bus to enjoy taxpayer perks and PDJT stopped the bus from leaving. We wondered if perhaps that might have been a mistake?
16 posted on 10/05/2022 6:42:34 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: Red Badger

“White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre dodged answering a question”
Is there a single key on their keyboard that posts this line? If not, there should be, it would save a lot of typing for as often as it’s used.


17 posted on 10/05/2022 6:50:47 AM PDT by Fireone (When they pry them from my cold, dead, unvaccinated hands.)
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To: Rurudyne

I was working in Honeywell’s newest and best facility. While sitting in the bathroom stall, I heard two men in the adjacent stall having a loud, angry argument. Two different voices and manners of speaking. I looked under the stall and saw only one pair of shoes. After exciting I waited until the other man came out. He was a software engineer who everyone avoided. The argument continued but in two lowered voices. These two personalities hated each other.

Several weeks later an auditor from the GAO experienced the same thing and then followed the engineer back to his cube and did a security audit. This guy had top secret data plastered on the walls of his cube. He was walked out on the same day. We held a party at lunch the next day. What a relief. Everyone thought that one day this guy, or one of his personalities would come in with a gun looking for the other personalities.


18 posted on 10/05/2022 6:54:47 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: Red Badger

The coastie should have told him “thanks, but you are firing me next week”.

It was a golden opportunity.


19 posted on 10/05/2022 7:16:02 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: FamiliarFace

And the lapdog Whitehouse media sits quietly like the collective barrel of snakes they are


20 posted on 10/05/2022 8:26:27 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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