Jill Biden’s Ex-Press Secretary Explains How Biden White House Bullied ‘A Lot of Journalists’: They Demanded Pre-Screened Questions and ‘Quote Approval’
Isaac SchorrMar 25th, 2025, 2:41 pm
Michael LaRosa, the former press secretary for First Lady Jill Biden, explained to The Young Turks’ Cenk Uygur how the Biden administration bullied “a lot of journalists” in a newly released interview.
LaRosa made waves last month when he told an audience that the Biden campaign was guilty of “gaslighting” the public over then-President Joe Biden’s age and political standing last year. And he doubled down during his conversation with Uygur.
The ex-staffer said that the Biden team acted like it was operating “out of a bunker” from the moment its principal took the oath of office in 2021, which he professed not to understand because there was “so much goodwill” toward it from the press.
“They did bully a lot of journalists, and I think they would tell you that now. They wouldn’t have told you at the time,” said LaRosa.
“How do you bully the press?” asked Uygur. “What do you threaten?”
“Well, there are a lot of ways. I mean, like I thought it was weird that they only did interviews for ‘quote approval.’ There was this thing in Biden world about quote approval, everything had to be on quote approval. So you talk to a reporter, but like one person decides what the reporter can use, what quotes they can use. There was weird things like that,” replied LaRosa.
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