Karine Jean-Pierre didn’t walk away from Trump question | Fact check

A Sept. 17 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre taking a question from a reporter about the apparent second assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump.
“It’s been only two days since somebody allegedly tried to kill Donald Trump again, and you’re here at the podium in the White House Briefing Room calling him a ‘threat,'” Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy says in the clip. “How many more assassination attempts on Donald Trump until the president and the vice president and you pick a different word to describe Trump other than ‘threat?'”
The video then cuts to Jean-Pierre ending the press conference and walking away without responding.
“She just got DESTROYED and walked off humiliated!” reads on-screen text in the post.
The post was liked more than 6,000 times in two days.
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The clip is edited to remove Jean-Pierre’s answer to Doocy’s question. The full video of the exchange shows she responded at length and then continued taking questions from another reporter before ending the press conference.
The exchange between Jean-Pierre and Doocy happened at a White House press briefing on Sept. 17, two days after the Secret Service foiled an apparent second assassination attempt against Trump at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida.
A video of the briefing provided by the White House shows Jean-Pierre did not abruptly end the press conference after Doocy asked his question. Instead, she had a lengthy response, telling Doocy she “completely” disagreed with the premise of his question. She went on to say, in part:
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A White House transcript and video show a back-and-forth between Jean-Pierre and Doocy – regular sparring partners in the briefing room – occurred before Jean-Pierre eventually moved on to take questions from another reporter about taxes on overtime pay and the economy.
Jean-Pierre ended the briefing about eight minutes after Doocy asked the question about Trump, C-SPAN footage shows.
USA TODAY has debunked an array of social media claims related to Jean-Pierre’s press conferences, including videos that were similarly altered to show her abruptly ending briefings and to add fabricated audio.
The Instagram user who shared the post did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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