Helen Aguirre Ferre, now the White House’s Director of Media Relations, previously very publicly bashed Trump repeatedly during the campaign to lead the Never Trump movement.
Aguirre Ferre’s most infamous Never Trump comments came via Twitter on March 11, 2016, in a since-deleted Tweet in which she said now President Trump “bears responsibility” for violent riots in Chicago that forced him to shut down a campaign event there ahead of the Illinois primary.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer has not answered a detailed set of questions from Breitbart News on Aguirre Ferre’s history of Trump-bashing, He would not comment either on who is responsible for hiring the vocal Never Trumper at the White House. But Spicer asked a deputy in the White House to ask Breitbart News to delay publication of their article.
Breitbart News said they accommodated the White House, “giving Spicer and his team several extra hours to answer the questions sent to them—including who was responsible for hiring Aguirre Ferre, whether that person who hired her informed the president of these comments she made about him before giving her a senior position in the White House communications office, and whether Aguirre Ferre still believes all these criticisms she made about Trump but has never publicly retracted other than deleting Tweets”.
Spicer promised to call Breitbart News to answer the nagging questions and others about Aguirre Ferre, but never did.
White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders, defended Aguirre Ferre when asked about her virulent anti-Trump positions before joining the administration. Huckabee Sanders told Breitbart News Daily on Tuesday morning:
“I think it’s sad that any individual reporter or outlet would try to attack a member of the president’s staff and diminish them maybe based on some of their previous jobs and try to disqualify or discredit them because of that. We’ve got an incredible team here working really hard to carry out the president’s agenda that he laid out during the campaign, that he continues to lay out day in day out here in the White House. And we are all committed to helping move that agenda forward and we are working day and night to do that, and again we’ve got a great team doing that all focused on helping support the president and his agenda.”
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