Rion and her employer, a tiny conservative cable outlet known as OANN, appear to have gotten special permission from the White House, in violation of the guidelines.
OANN was founded 2013 by Robert Herring Sr., a millionaire Republican donor from San Diego who made his fortune in the circuit-board business before starting over in media.
In an email, OANN founder and chief executive Charles Herring said Rion’s presence “was appropriate” and that she was invited to attend the briefing.
In a previous briefing, Rion brought up Trump’s controversial use of the term “Chinese virus” by rhetorically asking whether he considered the term “Chinese food” to be racist because “it is food that originated from China?”
On Sunday, Trump called on Pellegrino twice to ask a question — one of which seemed to please him immensely.
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