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Meet The Hyper-Lib Taking Over The White House Press Corps

By The Daily Caller

A new president took the helm of the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) on Tuesday, but CBS News’s Weija Jiang’s tenure seemingly won’t be much of a departure from the reign of her predecessor.

Jiang has served as CBS’ Senior White House correspondent since 2018 and will serve as president of the WHCA for a year. She was first elected to a three-year WHCA board position in 2023. She is taking over as president from Eugene Daniels — formerly Politico’s White House correspondent and now MSNBC’s senior Washington correspondent.

Daniels’ tenure was marked by cries that the Trump administration was a major threat to press freedom, even while President Donald Trump made himself readily available for gaggles, press conferences, briefings, and interviews.

Jiang’s reporting history suggests it’s unlikely she will take a much different posture toward the Trump administration.

The CBS News correspondent sparred with Trump amid the 2020 Covid pandemic. She and the president got into a back-and-forth over the rapidity of his administration’s response in April that year, with her tacitly alleging that Trump had delayed widespread Covid testing to hide the total number of cases.

“Did your delay in embracing wide-spread testing have anything to do with a desire to suppress the official number of U.S. cases and deaths as you try to re-open the country?” Jiang asked.

“No, we just wanted to make sure that we had the proper machinery apparatus and everything else out there before people started wasting money,” Trump replied. “Method of saving money.”

Jiang also claimed a White House official called the virus the “Kung-Flu” to her face and insinuated administration officials might be making racist comments behind closed doors.

“Makes me wonder what they’re calling it behind my back,” she wrote on X in March 2020.

During the Biden administration, however, Jiang served as a useful parrot for the president and his staff’s preferred narratives.

In February 2024, Biden bumbled a question about the Israel-Hamas war by mixing up the presidents of Mexico and Egypt. Biden referred to Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi as “the president of Mexico.”

Jiang opted to exclude this mistake in her coverage of Biden’s press conference, instead merely noting that Biden had elsewhere offered his  “sharpest criticism yet of Israel.”

In March 2024, Jiang excused Biden’s apparent inability to remember key details while speaking with Special Counsel Robert Hur in a probe about Biden’s mishandling of classified documents. Hur alleged in a report about the interview that the president could not remember the year his son Beau died and whether or not he was Vice President in 2009.

Jiang, however, accused Hur of lying about Biden’s memory lapses in an X post following the release of the interview transcript.

“The President was fired up about Hur’s claim that he couldn’t remember when his son Beau died… because it was false,” Jiang wrote. “He immediately said the date, according to the interview transcript.”

Jiang doubled down during an on-air hit on CBS News.

“Many of the details that Biden couldn’t recall, such as how boxes were packed up, how they were transported, those are things that would likely be tricky for anyone to remember decades later,” Jiang said. “It is notable though that [Special Counsel Robert] Hur wrote that Biden could not remember when his son Beau died. That’s just not true.”

The Hur transcript, however, indicates that while Biden remembered the date — May 30 — when Beau died, but could not recall the year.

“He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died,” Hur wrote.

More recently, Jiang covered events at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) during last year’s presidential election and praised then-Vice President Kamala Harris for her appeals to Gen-Z voters.

Jiang pointed to pop star Charli XCX’s June 2024 “kamala IS brat” tweet, unflinchingly parroting Gen Z explanations as to why the comparison resonated.

“It’s a vibe,” Jiang said, describing how others explained the term to her. “It is a spirit that you encompass that really addresses the feminine spirit, the feral-ness of women using their voices, and of being unapologetically yourself.”

“That is a compliment for anybody who might have questions,” Jiang continued. “It’s really about owning who you are and being able to roll with that, even if sometimes it means laughing at yourself, being a little self-deprecating, being a little bit fun.”

Jiang praised Tim Walz during additional coverage at the DNC. remarking on his ability to be “an attack dog” who “has a way of attacking, but still coming across as joyful and jolly.”

Daniels indicated he is proud to pass the torch to Jiang.

“The association is in amazing hands w/ @weijia. She will lead with strength, perseverance, humility and love,” Daniels wrote in a send-off post on X. 

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