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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Robert Mackey

White House defends new press aide who posed with rifle in ‘Fuck Joe Biden’ shirt

Man in suit leans through doorway into gaggle of reporters holding microphones.
Donald Trump takes questions from members of the media, including Beni Rae Harmony, on Air Force One after a two-day visit to Ireland, on 13 September. Photograph: Kylie Cooper/Reuters

The White House has defended a newly hired press aide who posed for a holiday photograph in 2021 wearing a “Fuck Joe Biden” T-shirt and holding a rifle.

Beni Rae Harmony, the new assistant White House press secretary, announced on Friday that she was going to work for Donald Trump just days after covering him as a correspondent for Real America’s Voice, a partisan rightwing outlet originally created as a video podcast platform for the US president’s former adviser Steve Bannon.

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