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

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Posted on AllSides October 5, 2026

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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, revealed 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 president's former adviser Steve Bannon...

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