Resurfaced photo shows Biden press sec Jen Psaki wearing hammer and sickle hat with Russian officials
1 December 2020 – Sam Dorman | Fox News
The hammer and sickle have come to represent communist movements around the world.
Jen Psaki, who was named to serve as President-elect Biden’s White House press secretary, is facing fresh scrutiny over a photo that shows her wearing a Russian hat that bears the communist hammer-and-sickle logo.
Psaki, who served in former President Obama’s State Department, was gifted the pink shapka, or fur hat, by her then-counterpart, spokesperson Maria Zakharova, in Russia. A photo from 2014 shows Psaki wearing the hat while posing with then-Secretary of State John Kerry, who has been appointed to serve as Biden’s “climate czar,” and Zakharova.
Also standing next to Psaki is Russian ambassador Sergey Lavrov, who caught attention for an Oval Office meeting in 2017 where President Trump controversially shared U.S. intelligence with him.
The hammer and sickle has come to represent communist movements around the world. It also was a feature of the flag for the former Soviet Union, which spawned from Russia’s communist revolution and engaged in decades of brinksmanship in a “cold war” with the U.S. It has also become a symbol for brutal economic and political repression that occurs under communist regimes.
Biden’s transition team noted to Fox News that gift exchanges are common on foreign trips, referencing how Kerry previously gave Lavrov two Idaho potatoes during a meeting in Paris.
Psaki’s attire faced pushback from the Trump campaign on Monday.
“Here’s Jen Psaki hugging Russia’s Foreign Minister and Russia’s chief foreign affairs propagandist while wearing a pink hammer and sickle hat,” tweeted Trump campaign Deputy Director of Communications Matt Wolking.
This photo helps explain why the Obama administration did nothing to stop Putin from invading Ukraine. This picture is from 2014 and if it doesn’t make you sick you’re on the wrong website.
Slava Ukraini~~!!
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Utter scum!
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Just imagine if it was Trump’s Press Secretary…
Like I’ve been telling everyone, it’s all been projection from the start.
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It would be useful to know when that was taken. If it really was 2014, the grinning bitch was wearing a murder hat and dancing on the graves of Ukrainians slaughtered by putinazi scum invaders.
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My mistake, it’s from January 13th of 2014 so it was 6 weeks before the Crimean invasion. Still, this cozy relationship would have been a huge factor in their fascist calculus.
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Why didn’t Trump’s team circulate this during the election campaign? It certainly would have opened a few eyes for those who opted to vote for the semi-communist Biden and his even worse sidekick.
This election and its outcome was a catastrophe!
I think I will go vomit now.
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Just don’t vomit on your keyboard, that’s Mike’s job…;)
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Don’t remind me. My left CTRL key is gone. Had to remap my keyboard. 😎
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Yes, I remembered and stopped just in the nick of time. Mike, if you read this … have at it! 😉
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Bhaaaaaahaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!
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This picture is on Wikipedia for years. And during the campaign, I don’t think anyone knew she was a Biden pick.
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As the article states it is a common procedure, and happened before RuSSia’s invasion. I myself was warm with RuSSia before the invasion. But it illustrates what RuSSia once had and will never have again thanks to their bullshit in Ukraine and Syria.
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It was in 2014 right? The invasion of Crimea already started. It is not so smart, but it was a gift from Lavrov at the time.
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This picture is on Wikipedia for years. And during the campaign, I don’t think anyone knew she was a Biden pick.
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