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Vile Image Emerges of New White House Press Aide
The Daily Beast • • nation
Key Points:
- Beni Rae Harmony, 24, has been hired as an assistant press secretary and White House spokesperson under President Donald Trump, despite previously posing with a rifle and wearing a shirt with an anti-Joe Biden message.
- Harmony's LinkedIn indicates she worked as director of public affairs for a U.S. political campaign linked to the Republican Party of Virginia Beach, where congressional candidate Bell ran in 2022.
- She joins the White House press team during a period of staff turnover following the resignation of former Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt in August.
- Prior to this role, Harmony was a White House correspondent for the right-wing network Real America’s Voice, known for airing shows by Steve Bannon, Charlie Kirk, and Ted Nugent.
- Harmony left WICS-ABC20 in Springfield, Illinois, after being suspended for an unprompted on-air tribute to Charlie Kirk following his assassination in September 2025.
