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Scoop: Jen Psaki planning to leave White House this spring for MSNBC gig
lol
Gross. I don't think press secretaries should be able to work for any news outlet, but there should at least be a year moratorium or something. All the Trump people left and immediately got jobs at Fox or Newsmax. Shit is unethical, imo.
She's actually been in negotiations with multiple news networks for almost a year now. They love the Psaki Bombs and can't wait to replace Maddow with them.
As you note, she's not the first to hop to the media but she's the first I can recall who's actually leaving the position to take up a prominent media job. Most of them have stepped down and then done a few appearances as guests or whatever for a while before eventually getting on a show. Dana Perino was just a guest for I don't know how long before she finally got on The Five. Many of the Trump people had to go slum at places like OAN or Newsmax.
Tony Snow did go the opposite way, from Fox to the White House, but that seems more "proper" somehow. Like you're hiring someone good at their job or whatever. The other way seems more unseemly I think because you're hiring someone whose job has been literally to lie and spin for the second most powerful man in the world. (After the Texas Lt. Governor.) But when feeding a partisan audience they really only care that the person is on the right team.
