A former press secretary for Jill Biden appeared on the Younger Turks podcast this week and admitted that the Biden administration demanded pre-screened questions from reporters upfront.
Many individuals have suspected that this was the case, however that is the primary time that somebody from the Biden White Home confirmed it.
For 4 years, hundreds of thousands of Individuals watched Joe Biden reply to reporters with notecards or lists in his arms. This seems to be why.
Mediaite stories:
Jill Biden’s Ex-Press Secretary Explains How Biden White Home Bullied ‘A Lot of Journalists’: They Demanded Pre-Screened Questions and ‘Quote Approval’
Michael LaRosa, the previous press secretary for First Woman Jill Biden, defined to The Younger Turks’ Cenk Uygur how the Biden administration bullied “a number of journalists” in a newly launched interview.
LaRosa made waves final month when he informed an viewers that the Biden marketing campaign was responsible of “gaslighting” the general public over then-President Joe Biden’s age and political standing final yr. And he doubled down throughout his dialog with Uygur.
Within the video beneath, LaRosa says:
I imply you noticed them get caught attempting to script inquiries to radio reporters that summer time, summer time of 2024. It was very reminiscent to me of being on the marketing campaign in 2020, the place these younger press staffers in these states like New Hampshire, or Iowa, or Nevada, they had been kind of like canine educated to make the questions conditional for interviews. And I mentioned to them, “Please by no means ask the journalist for the questions forward of time. You’ll be able to all the time ask concerning the matters, however don’t ask them for the questions for Dr. Biden.”
They usually mentioned, “Nicely, that’s what the opposite aspect tells us to do for him [Joe Biden].” I mentioned, “That’s okay, high quality. That’s their drawback.
Watch the video:
Biden insider reveals their fixed manipulation of the press:
Michael LaRosa: “Quote approval. There was this factor in Biden world about quote approval. All the things needed to be on quote approval: One particular person [within the Biden admin] decides what the reporter can use, what quotes… pic.twitter.com/97nT9R8p7F— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) March 25, 2025
The proof was there all alongside.
Joe Biden’s notecard doesn’t simply inform him which reporters to name on, it consists of what order to name on them in and what PRE-SUBMITTED questions they’re going to ask.
There’s no method this occurred beneath Trump..
Embarrassing. pic.twitter.com/FRDw0OhaN0
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) April 26, 2023
Are you able to even think about the media’s response if Trump tried to get their questions upfront? It’d be referred to as a Constitutional disaster.
