A spokesperson for Joe Biden was suspended for a week on Friday after threatening a journalist and making sexist remarks in a telephone conversation.
TJ Ducklo, 32, who was part of Joe Biden's campaign team, has joined the White House, becoming a deputy to Jen Psaki, a spokesman for the US executive.
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"I am going to destroy you", he
would have declared in particular to this journalist of Politico, Tara Palmeri, according to the account of the incident made by Vanity Fair.
The latter had contacted him to question him about his intimate relationship with another journalist, Alexi McCammond of the Axios site, and the ethical questions that this could raise.
"TJ Ducklo apologized to the journalist with whom he had a heated conversation about his personal life
,
"
responded Tara Psaki.
"He is the first to recognize that his behavior was not up to the standards set by the president,"
she added.
The very day of his arrival at the White House, Joe Biden publicly warned his teams that he would not tolerate any slippage.
"I'm not kidding when I say this: if you work with me and I hear you treating a colleague with disrespect, or being contemptuous, I promise you that I will fire you immediately,"
he said. .
Asked during her daily press briefing on the gap between this presidential promise and the relatively lenient sanction - a week of suspension - decided against his deputy, Jen Psaki dodged.
“It won't happen again.
And that will not be tolerated in the White House, ”
she replied.