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Jill Biden’s office attempts to walk back Iowa WH invite as racism accusations fly

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Fox News contributor Joe Concha weighs in on limited camera access to the Trump arraignment and first lady Jill Biden requesting to host NCAA women's basketball champion LSU and runner-up Iowa Hawkeyes at the White House.

First lady Jill Biden's office on Tuesday attempted to lower the temperature after she received backlash on social media, including accusations of racism, for floating the idea of inviting the University of Iowa women’s basketball team to the White House, despite them losing to Louisiana State University (LSU) in the national championship game over the weekend. "I know we’ll have the champions come to the White House, we always do.

So, we hope LSU will come," Biden said Monday. "But, you know, I’m going to tell Joe I think Iowa should come, too, because they played such a good game." The first lady’s idea backfired immediately, as thousands of quote tweets rolled in over the course of just hours.

Pastor Talbert Swan wrote, "Jill Biden is a white woman," and suggested the first lady's race was why she invited the Iowa women's team. JILL BIDEN FACES SCRUTINY FOR FLOATING IDEA OF INVITING IOWA TO WHITE HOUSE AFTER NATIONAL TITLE LOSS TO LSU First lady Jill Biden was dogpiled on Twitter after she invited both the University of Iowa’s and Louisiana State University’s (LSU) women's basketball teams to the White House after the championship game. (Nathan Howard/Getty Images) "Of course she wants the president to invite the team of predominantly white women that lost when the winning team of Black woman come to the White House," Swan wrote. "She wants to give white women the same privilege that Black women earned." "This is America," the pastor added. "Jill Biden inviting Iowa to the WH has Angel Reese

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