Scared to face queries of nation

For a guy who loves to play the straight-shooting kid from Scranton, President Biden sure goes silent a lot. Especially when hard questions are in the offing.

Greeting the press at his St. Patty’s Day meeting with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, the president took no questions.

That not only left the visiting PM doing his own Q&A in a White House driveway, it broke chief flack Karine Jean-Pierre’s promise to reporters just the day before.

Behind Biden’s lack of gab was surely all the topics he didn’t want to face.

Revelations that daughter-in-law Hallie Biden got a cut of his son Hunter’s deal with a Chinese energy major. A Russian jet’s forced downing of a US drone over the Black Sea. Biden’s own Border Patrol head telling Congress that the border is not under our control.

And that’s not even the full list. He cold-shouldered a group of reporters earlier this month — literally turning his back on them — because one dared to ask if he would hold China accountable for its COVID obfuscations.

Why?

Either Biden arrogantly believes he’s simply above it all, not bound in any way to explain himself to the media and thus to the American people.

Or he’s too scared to face the press because he has zero good answers on any important question about the disasters he’s wrought or the scandalous Biden “family business.”

So he just throws up his hands and walks off. No biggie!

He’s gotten so brazen the White House press corps has started to rebel over the fact that Joe barely ever faces them.

Which is all the more amazing because most of these reporters are firmly on Biden’s side of the aisle. Refusing to answer questions even from your friends says plenty all by itself.