Karine Jean-Pierre, eight months into her tenure as White House press secretary, has frustrated reporters with her inability to shed light on the classified documents probe, raising doubts about her own access. Others say her wariness is wise.
At Friday’s press briefing, Jean-Pierre invoked the phrase or some variation of it eight times — including in response to a question about whether the White House has done an effective job communicating about the lingering controversy.
unique in the line of chief White House spokespeople; as she noted at her first briefing in May, “I am a Black, gay, immigrant woman, the first of all three of those to hold this position. I would not be here today if it were not for generations of barriers — barrier-breaking people before me. I stand on their shoulders.”
This correspondent added that “press secretaries who are truly viewed by their bosses as senior advisers are better positioned to speak for their bosses,” citing Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs and Trump press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders as examples. “The public has the right to a full accounting of why these classified materials left the White House,” Lockhart said. “But the only way to get a complete picture is to wait on the results of the investigation, not the daily stream of anecdotal information.”
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