Thread by @Brick_Suit

Joe Biden had a cheat sheet of all the reporters with numbered circles by the ones he was supposed to call on.
#Scripted

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#Scripted #CheatSheet

This isn't just a seating chart. It's a #CheatSheet that shows not only which reporters Resident Biden will call on, but also the ORDER in which they will be called.

We can't see the whole sheet but four numbers are visible: 1, 5, 8, & 9.

Here's where those reporters sat.

And the circled numbers were NOT written on the #CheatSheet as the conference went on.

Here are two frame grabs taken between the end of the 3rd question, and the start of the 4th, that show all the circled numbers were already written on the sheet.

For context here is the clip that the previous screen grabs were taken from.

(Between Seung Min Kim's questions and the 4th reporter called, Cecelia Vega)

Here are the reporters on the #CheatSheet that we could see with circled numbers. As per their numbers, they were in fact the 1st, 5th, 8th, and 9th reporters called.

Notice that Biden is not even looking at them.

1: Zeke Miller
5: Ken Thomas
8: Kaitlan Collins
9: Justin Sink

And here are the four circled reporters from the #CheatSheet shown again with their relative positions in the room.

Resident Biden knew the questions in advance and had prepared answers for all of them.

This is most evident on the question about North Korean missile launches.

See how Biden, head down, just reads his answer compared to a screen grab of his notes taken later.
h/t @mbracemoore

This wasn't a press conference.
It was a fully #Scripted event.

Resident Biden knew in advance
which reporters he was going to call
and the order he was going to call on them.

More importantly he knew in advance the questions they would ask and the answers he would give.