"Both Price of the State Department and Psaki of the White House exhibited the same attitude. They frequently repeated their claims which is a ploy used to wear out questioners. In their remarks, they effectively said: “It is true because the government says so. If you doubt it, you are siding with the enemy.”
This is the kind of talk that occurs in third-world autocratic regimes, not in one of the world’s largest democracies"

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/02/biden_officials_scoff_at_reporters_questions_about_ukraine_and_syria.html