Jen Psaki made her debut in the White House Instruction Room on Wednesday as President Biden’s press secretary.
Psaki previously served in the 2009-2017 Obama administration. She started out as deputy press secretary for the White House and was later elevated to deputy director of communications for the White House.
In 2013, she moved to the State Department, where she served as spokesperson for then Secretary of State John Kerry.
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During his tenure at the State Department, Psaki was known for his combative exchanges with reporters. One of these exchanges became the center of a controversy after it was discovered in 2016 that an eight-minute 2013 exchange with Fox News reporter James Rosen was edited in the State Department archives, where she appears to admit that the department had cheated. reporters and the American people about the origins of the Nuclear Agreement with Iran.
In 2015, Psaki returned to the White House, this time as director of communications, where she served until the end of President Obama’s second term.
After serving on the Obama administration, she became a CNN contributor and was aired during the 2020 presidential election.
After it was announced that Psaki would become Biden’s press secretary at the White House, a reappeared clip from October 2019 showed that she appeared to question the questionable gaffes of the then Democratic candidate during the campaign, specifically one he made in the city hall. CNN when it referred to “gay spas” on LGBTQ issues.
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“There were several times when even those of us who have an affection for Vice President Biden thought ‘what the hell is going on now?'” Psaki recalled the Obama administration during a CNN panel. “And part of his appeal is that he says things that his uncle says and people are comfortable with him and it’s a return to normality. So yes, that was a strange comment. I’m not sure if it will impact him it in the long run. “
Psaki also criticized Biden’s “rusty” performance and seemed “out of touch” with the electorate after the first Democratic primary debate in June 2019.
At his first briefing as press secretary of the White House, Psaki told reporters that President Biden asked her to bring “truth and transparency back to the briefing room” and “ensure that we are communicating the policies of the entire government. Biden-Harris “to the media and to the American people.
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“There will be times when we will see things differently in this room, among all of us,” said Psaki. “Okay – that is part of our democracy.”
She added: “Rebuilding trust is central to our focus on the White House and press relations.”