President Joe Biden not too long ago rehired a White Home aide who was fired in 2021 for an “abhorrent” assault towards a feminine reporter, RadarOnline.com has discovered.
Former White Home deputy press secretary TJ Ducklo is reportedly set to rejoin the Biden Administration two years after the 34-year-old political adviser resigned after launching “threatening and abusive” remarks towards then-Politico reporter Tara Palmeri in February 2021.
The 2021 incident reportedly befell after Palmeri confronted Ducklo relating to an “ethically-questionable” relationship the Biden advisor shaped with Axios reporter Alexi McCammond one yr earlier.
However regardless of the backlash Ducklo acquired for his abhorrent conduct, Palmeri – who now writes for Puck – penned a bit on Thursday during which she not solely forgave the 34-year-old former White Home deputy press secretary but in addition expressed how she “by no means needed Ducklo to be fired from the White Home.”
“The reality about Ducklo, with whom I had by no means interacted earlier than the incident on the evening of Biden’s inauguration, is that he was a really aggressive defender of the president, which naturally rubbed some reporters the unsuitable method,” Palmeri wrote in Thursday’s piece for Puck.
“Some thought he was demeaning, however no one who approached me afterward stated that he had ever crossed the road as he did with me,” she continued. “For what it’s price, I by no means needed Ducklo to be fired from the White Home.”
Nonetheless, Biden’s resolution to rehire Ducklo in a senior communications function on the president’s newly launched 2024 reelection marketing campaign has prompted controversy for the 80-year-old commander-in-chief.
“It’s onerous to imagine that within the post-#MeToo, anti-bullying world we reside in, that the president’s crew can be this tone-deaf,” Michael LaRosa, who served as press secretary for former first girl Jill Biden, informed Politico this week.
“If true, it represents a shocking lack of judgment by these whom he entrusted to responsibly employees his reelection marketing campaign,” LaRosa continued. “It’s not like there’s a lack of Democratic expertise in D.C. or throughout the nation to select from.”
“Hiring former personnel who embarrassed and humiliated him in his first three weeks in workplace and created an pointless distraction within the briefing room and for the first household feels counterintuitive to me.”
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