White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre Gives A VERY Awkward (and Brief) Response About OJ Simpson’s Death WITHOUT Mentioning the Murder Victims

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre gave a very awkward and short answer when asked Thursday about OJ Simpson’s death.

Simpson died Wednesday at the age of 76 after a battle with cancer, his family advertised on social media.

A reporter asked Jean-Pierre if President Joe Biden, 81, had any reaction to Simpson’s death or if the two had ever crossed paths over the years.

“So I will say, our thoughts are with, uh, are with his families during this difficult time, obviously with his family and loved ones,” Jean-Pierre said. “And I will say this, I know they’ve asked for some privacy, and we’ll respect that. I’ll just leave it at that.”

Simpson’s ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman were brutally murdered on June 12, 1994, resulting in the trial of the century.

OJ Simpson holds the bloodstained gloves found by Los Angeles police during part of his murder case in 1996. Simpson died Wednesday at the age of 76

The former Buffalo Bills player was found ‘not guilty’ of murdering Brown and Goldman on October 3, 1995.

The trial was must-see TV at the time – and came after a dramatic car chase involving Simpson in a white Ford Bronco.

In a civil trial that followed, Simpson was found liable for Goldman’s wrongful death and violence against Goldman and Brown.

And so in 2007, the book If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer was to be published, detailing how the murders of Brown and Goldman hypothetically took place, based on interviews Simpson conducted with author Pablo Fenjves.

Simpson ran into more legal trouble in 2007 when he and a group of men entered a room at the Palace Station casino and hotel in Las Vegas and grabbed sports memorabilia at gunpoint.

The former football star initially said the memorabilia had been taken from him and he wanted it back.

The robbery resulted in Simpson being charged with a handful of felonies, including criminal conspiracy, kidnapping, assault, robbery and use of a deadly weapon.

He served nine years in prison for those charges after being convicted in 2008 of 12 counts of armed robbery and kidnapping two sports memorabilia dealers at gunpoint at Palace Station.

Jean-Pierre did not mention Brown or Goldman when asked to comment at the White House briefing Thursday.