Media Silence After Biden Removes Petitioning From White House Website; Fact Check: Did the Biden Administration Remove the White House Petitioning System?
Media Silence After Biden Removes Petitioning From White House Website:
It appears that the ‘We the People’ petition system has been taken off the White House website. Here is an archive of what it looked like before Biden took office.
The system has been around for many years. At any given time, hundreds of petitions were active. If you get 100,000 signatures, the White House is supposed to give an answer. You may remember that there was an active “Free Assange” petition that the Obama Administration was obligated to answer (and gave a bad answer).
When Trump took office, he briefly discontinued it but put it back up after a media uproar.
Now it appears the Biden White House has removed it. The website used to be here:
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov —>READ MORE HERE
Fact Check: Did the Biden Administration Remove the White House Petitioning System?
At his inauguration, President Joe Biden pledged to restore democracy and declared that the will of the people had been heard. But his detractors are now pointing to an allegedly missing page from the White House website as evidence against these proclamations.
“We the People,” an online petitioning system launched by President Barack Obama’s administration, is said to have been removed without explanation.
The Claim
On Tuesday, the Ron Paul Institute, responding to an article published by the anti-imperialist website antiwar.com, decried the Biden administration for allegedly taking down a White House petitioning system that allowed citizens to start campaigns. Once the campaigns reached at least 100,000, the White House was required to respond.
“It appears that the ‘We the People’ petition system has been taken off the White House website,” the Ron Paul Institute posted to its blog. “This is a terrible event, and it must be publicized, and Biden must be made to reverse this decision.” —>READ MORE HERE
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