He also questioned why this alleged bullying was even necessary, considering the “goodwill” that Biden already had with the media. “I never understood it because there was so much goodwill that [Joe Biden] had with the media, had with the press, coming off of Donald Trump,” he noted.
The former staffer revealed that members of the Biden team made “unethical” demands from journalists dating back to the president’s 2020 campaign, after Uygur questioned how the former president’s team would “bully the press.”
“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,” LaRosa responded.
He then explained how this “quote approval” process would work, detailing that “one person” on Biden’s team would be assigned a reporter, who they were responsible for deciding “what the reporter can use, what quotes they can use” after conducting an interview with the president.
According to LaRosa, young members of Biden’s staff were “dog trained” on how to coerce the press into only asking the president certain questions and gaining access to these questions ahead of interviews.
“You saw them get caught trying to script questions to radio reporters that summer, summer of 2024. It was very reminiscent to me of being on the campaign in 2020, where these young press staffers in these states like New Hampshire, or Iowa, or Nevada, they were sort of like dog trained to make the questions conditional for interviews,” he alleged.
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