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The resignation comes after Vanity Fair reported about abusive statements by TJ Ducklo.
By QUINT FORGEY
02/13/2021 07:43 PM EST
Deputy Press Secretary TJ Ducklo has resigned after making threatening and abusive remarks to a POLITICO reporter, the White House announced on Saturday.
"We accepted the resignation of TJ Ducklo after a discussion with him this evening," press secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement, noting that the "conversation occurred with the support of the White House chief of staff," Ron Klain. "We are committed to striving every day to meet the standard set by the president in treating others with dignity and respect, with civility and with a value for others through our words and our actions," she added.
Ducklo issued his own statement via Twitter, acknowledging the conduct and vowing to "learn from it and do better."
"No words can express my regret, my embarrassment, and my disgust for my behavior," Ducklo wrote. "I used language that no woman should ever have to hear from anyone, especially in a situation where she was just trying to do her job."
Ducklo's resignation came after Vanity Fair reported on Friday about an off-the-record call between Ducklo and Tara Palmeri, a co-author of POLITICOs Playbook newsletter, who was in the process of reporting on Ducklos relationship with Axios reporter Alexi McCammond.
After the Vanity Fair story was published, Psaki announced that Ducklo had been "placed on a one-week suspension without pay" and that he would no longer be assigned to work with any POLITICO reporters.
Addressing Ducklos suspension further at a White House briefing Friday afternoon, Psaki said Ducklo is the first to acknowledge that his actions do not meet the standard of behavior set out by the president, nor is it the standard of behavior set out by me. And Im his direct supervisor.
But Psaki also said that Ducklos inappropriate remarks toward Palmeri were in the context of a story related to his personal life.
Im not saying thats acceptable, but I just want to be clear that it was not about an issue related to the White House or White House policy, or anything along those lines, she said.
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The resignation comes after Vanity Fair reported about abusive statements by TJ Ducklo.
By QUINT FORGEY
02/13/2021 07:43 PM EST
Deputy Press Secretary TJ Ducklo has resigned after making threatening and abusive remarks to a POLITICO reporter, the White House announced on Saturday.
"We accepted the resignation of TJ Ducklo after a discussion with him this evening," press secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement, noting that the "conversation occurred with the support of the White House chief of staff," Ron Klain. "We are committed to striving every day to meet the standard set by the president in treating others with dignity and respect, with civility and with a value for others through our words and our actions," she added.
Ducklo issued his own statement via Twitter, acknowledging the conduct and vowing to "learn from it and do better."
"No words can express my regret, my embarrassment, and my disgust for my behavior," Ducklo wrote. "I used language that no woman should ever have to hear from anyone, especially in a situation where she was just trying to do her job."
Ducklo's resignation came after Vanity Fair reported on Friday about an off-the-record call between Ducklo and Tara Palmeri, a co-author of POLITICOs Playbook newsletter, who was in the process of reporting on Ducklos relationship with Axios reporter Alexi McCammond.
After the Vanity Fair story was published, Psaki announced that Ducklo had been "placed on a one-week suspension without pay" and that he would no longer be assigned to work with any POLITICO reporters.
Addressing Ducklos suspension further at a White House briefing Friday afternoon, Psaki said Ducklo is the first to acknowledge that his actions do not meet the standard of behavior set out by the president, nor is it the standard of behavior set out by me. And Im his direct supervisor.
But Psaki also said that Ducklos inappropriate remarks toward Palmeri were in the context of a story related to his personal life.
Im not saying thats acceptable, but I just want to be clear that it was not about an issue related to the White House or White House policy, or anything along those lines, she said.
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Good. There is a party where creeps like this rule. I'll just add that the party of which-I-speak, begins with a "Republican".
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White House press aide resigns after threatening POLITICO reporter (Original Post)
JoeOtterbein
Feb 2021
OP
Are you implying that since it was a Politico writer, that it was ok for him to harass her?
JoeOtterbein
Feb 2021
#4
My daughter reports for Politico. The hate from "both sides" for Politico is horrible and mostly...
JoeOtterbein
Feb 2021
#11
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,064 posts)1. Good. I was hoping he'd resign - or be fired.
Budi
(15,325 posts)2. No, Mr Otterbein. Here's what really went down
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10021028#post17
THIS is who represents POLITICO:
This Ryan Lizza (who's never had a truthful good thing to say about Democrats OR Biden.
Aaahaaa...see where this shitshow comes from?
Figures🙄 enough said...
Sorry you got caught up in the shittiest journos in DC's line of fire TJ.
Take care of yourself & peace.
Your career is at least more admirable than the trash that dragged you.
********
Jan 2021 ~
Nashville native TJ Ducklo has been named as President-elect Joe Biden's deputy press secretary.
The Biden-Harris Transition team announced Ducklo's new role in a news release on Friday, which detailed roles in the new administration's communications, press, photo and digital strategy teams.
Ducklo currently serves as the spokesperson for the transition, and also worked as the Biden campaign's national press secretary.
Speaking honestly, with empathy and directly to the public about our administration will be among the key pillars in this Presidency and White House," Biden said in the release. "At a time when American families are facing numerous challenges, these appointees will strengthen our administrations ability to convey information to the American people and be integral in our teams efforts to build our nation back better."
Ducklo, 32, has juggled the demands of the campaign and transition with treatment for stage 4 lung cancer.
TJ DUCKLO: Nashville native goes from student council president to Joe Biden's presidential campaign
Inside the Belmont Presidential Debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden
In October, as he prepared for the second and final presidential debate at Belmont University in Nashville, he was taking four pills twice a day to treat his cancer, which spread from his lungs to his bones, liver and gallbladder. The gene-targeted treatment, which sidesteps some of the harsher side effects of traditional chemotherapy, allowed him to stay on the campaign trail with his boss.
In phone interviews in October, Ducklo said there is no place he'd rather be.
The searing urgency of the Biden campaign pushed him past the fear, anxiety and uncertainty that comes with an advanced cancer diagnosis.
"It was part of how I dealt with it," Ducklo said. "I believed in the work I was doing, and I believed in the vice president. I wasnt going to let being sick keep me from doing what I wanted to do."
*****************
So as Lizza slithered out from under his Firing from NY Magazine for a sex scandal, he rebuilt his creds by going to work for Politico & digging for a story he could redeem himself, via his girlfriend Olivia, and zeroed right in on scooping a damning report of all that's wrong with the Biden Admin.
Way to go Lizza! Celebrate your success today.
TJ , in his short career as Student Council President, to the Biden/Harris campaign, to Deputy Press Sec for the President of the USA is more honorable & admirable than the low life scrub of dirty political 'gotcha' scandal scoops you call journalism.
You crawled over Ducklo, the guy with stage 4 cancer, to once again "Absolutely Prove" that the Biden admin was inept.
*Big F to You Olivia & your bff sleazy Lizza.
******
This is Politico's power couple:
SNIP from the link from 12/2018
https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/the-worst-couple-in-media-is-writing-a-book-1831146668
"If you havent heard, white-supremacist whisperer Olivia Nuzzi and guy who was fired from the New Yorker after a sexual misconduct investigation Ryan Lizza are a couple. Congrats to the sex-havers. While Id usually try to avoid thinking about a woman my age being with a guy who is old enough to be her father, it was impossible when CNNs Brian Stelter got a SCOOP like this:"
*************
This is the world Lizza & Olivia exist in.
Anyone think they gave 2 shits about dragging the guy dying of stage 4 cancer, to manufacture a dirt scoop on Biden/Harris Admin?
This is who reperesents POLITICO.
This is another Nothing scoop, like their Tara Reade scoop.
Lizzo & Olivia dragged Ducklo to manufacture a derrogatory scoop on Biden/Harris Admin.
Politico is a gross & shameful place to have to be employeed at. They hired Ryan Lizzo after he got fired from NY Magazine for a sex scandal.
I'd be embarassed to have them on my resume'.
THIS is who represents POLITICO:
Link to tweet
This Ryan Lizza (who's never had a truthful good thing to say about Democrats OR Biden.
Aaahaaa...see where this shitshow comes from?
Figures🙄 enough said...
Link to tweet
Sorry you got caught up in the shittiest journos in DC's line of fire TJ.
Take care of yourself & peace.
Your career is at least more admirable than the trash that dragged you.
********
Jan 2021 ~
Nashville native TJ Ducklo has been named as President-elect Joe Biden's deputy press secretary.
The Biden-Harris Transition team announced Ducklo's new role in a news release on Friday, which detailed roles in the new administration's communications, press, photo and digital strategy teams.
Ducklo currently serves as the spokesperson for the transition, and also worked as the Biden campaign's national press secretary.
Speaking honestly, with empathy and directly to the public about our administration will be among the key pillars in this Presidency and White House," Biden said in the release. "At a time when American families are facing numerous challenges, these appointees will strengthen our administrations ability to convey information to the American people and be integral in our teams efforts to build our nation back better."
Ducklo, 32, has juggled the demands of the campaign and transition with treatment for stage 4 lung cancer.
TJ DUCKLO: Nashville native goes from student council president to Joe Biden's presidential campaign
Inside the Belmont Presidential Debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden
In October, as he prepared for the second and final presidential debate at Belmont University in Nashville, he was taking four pills twice a day to treat his cancer, which spread from his lungs to his bones, liver and gallbladder. The gene-targeted treatment, which sidesteps some of the harsher side effects of traditional chemotherapy, allowed him to stay on the campaign trail with his boss.
In phone interviews in October, Ducklo said there is no place he'd rather be.
The searing urgency of the Biden campaign pushed him past the fear, anxiety and uncertainty that comes with an advanced cancer diagnosis.
"It was part of how I dealt with it," Ducklo said. "I believed in the work I was doing, and I believed in the vice president. I wasnt going to let being sick keep me from doing what I wanted to do."
*****************
So as Lizza slithered out from under his Firing from NY Magazine for a sex scandal, he rebuilt his creds by going to work for Politico & digging for a story he could redeem himself, via his girlfriend Olivia, and zeroed right in on scooping a damning report of all that's wrong with the Biden Admin.
Way to go Lizza! Celebrate your success today.
TJ , in his short career as Student Council President, to the Biden/Harris campaign, to Deputy Press Sec for the President of the USA is more honorable & admirable than the low life scrub of dirty political 'gotcha' scandal scoops you call journalism.
You crawled over Ducklo, the guy with stage 4 cancer, to once again "Absolutely Prove" that the Biden admin was inept.
*Big F to You Olivia & your bff sleazy Lizza.
******
This is Politico's power couple:
SNIP from the link from 12/2018
https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/the-worst-couple-in-media-is-writing-a-book-1831146668
"If you havent heard, white-supremacist whisperer Olivia Nuzzi and guy who was fired from the New Yorker after a sexual misconduct investigation Ryan Lizza are a couple. Congrats to the sex-havers. While Id usually try to avoid thinking about a woman my age being with a guy who is old enough to be her father, it was impossible when CNNs Brian Stelter got a SCOOP like this:"
*************
This is the world Lizza & Olivia exist in.
Anyone think they gave 2 shits about dragging the guy dying of stage 4 cancer, to manufacture a dirt scoop on Biden/Harris Admin?
This is who reperesents POLITICO.
This is another Nothing scoop, like their Tara Reade scoop.
Lizzo & Olivia dragged Ducklo to manufacture a derrogatory scoop on Biden/Harris Admin.
Politico is a gross & shameful place to have to be employeed at. They hired Ryan Lizzo after he got fired from NY Magazine for a sex scandal.
I'd be embarassed to have them on my resume'.
dalton99a
(81,636 posts)3. +1. Opportunistic scum
JoeOtterbein
(7,702 posts)4. Are you implying that since it was a Politico writer, that it was ok for him to harass her?
Also, I would appreciate a brief answer.
JoeOtterbein
(7,702 posts)7. Thank for the...
...brevity of your answer.
JI7
(89,279 posts)6. No, we just know people that work at politico are shitbag gossip columnists
and not actual reporters and see through their shit.
tonedevil
(3,022 posts)8. So you do think it is ok...
that Ducklo, a government official, called and threatened a reporter? And, the reason it is ok is Politico reporters are not "real" reporters?
JoeOtterbein
(7,702 posts)11. My daughter reports for Politico. The hate from "both sides" for Politico is horrible and mostly...
...just writer "jelly".
Budi
(15,325 posts)13. Sure. Ok.
Jelly it is then.
Lizza & Olivia write the kind of Jelly that ...
We know.
tonedevil
(3,022 posts)15. I wouldn't attribute reasons...
I have definitely seen some ugly things thrown at your daughter's writing when you have shared with us. It is a shame as far as I'm concerned.
JoeOtterbein
(7,702 posts)16. Thanks.
As for "jelly", humans have sunk in it long before us. It will be difficult to remove the stain.
Budi
(15,325 posts)12. Ducklo was just the casualty of manufacturing a dirt scoop on the BIdEn/HARrIs AdMiN
C'mon, Lizza has a career to rebuild from that NY Mag sex scandal firing.
Budi
(15,325 posts)10. Thank you for your 'brief answer' Jl7
helpisontheway
(5,008 posts)9. I think he is the one with stage IV cancer. Nt