White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre speaks during the daily press briefing in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 12, 2023. (Photo by Andrew CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)
*Karine Jean-Pierre was appointed White House press secretary last May, and the liberals rejoiced because she is the first Black and first openly LGBTQ+ person to serve in the role.
But it seems that White House reporters are frustrated with Jean-Pierre, according to CNN’s Oliver Darcy.
“Frustration among White House reporters with press secretary is reaching a boiling point,” Dary reported Wednesday in CNN’s “Reliable Sources” newsletter, per Journal-isms.
“That is according to conversations I had on Wednesday with more than a half-dozen White House reporters who painted a picture of a White House press corps that has grown exasperated with Jean-Pierre and does not believe she is well equipped to handle their inquiries,” Darcy writes.
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“The reporters, who asked not to be identified in order to speak freely, pointed to Jean-Pierre’s insistence on sticking to talking points and an episode last week where a key assertion she made from the podium ultimately did not hold up,” Darcy writes.
Per Journal-isms, Darcy continued, ” ‘She is arguably the least effective White House press secretary of the television era,’ one veteran White House reporter told me on Wednesday.
“When asked for comment, a White House official, who declined to speak on the record, dismissed the complaints, telling me in a statement, ‘A lot of this sounds more like theater criticism than concern about ability to report facts for the American people’s benefit.’”
Per Darcy’s report, “Concerns inside the press corps with Jean-Pierre are not new. She has openly struggled to field basic questions inside the briefing room, relying, in agonizing fashion at times, on her binder of talking points to respond to simple inquiries. But the tension has escalated in recent days as President Joe Biden is confronted with questions about his past handling of classified documents.”
“I think you can tell the temperature has gone up a lot in the last few days,” one White House reporter remarked.
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