NCS anchor and senior White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins known as out President Donald Trump’s “inappropriate” assaults on ladies reporters like Catherine Lucey and Weijia Jiang, and stated it’s essential for reporters to point out “backbone” and rise up for one another.
After revealing she’d reached out to Lucey, Collins recounted a time she stood up for Jiang after Trump attacked her:
HEATHER MCMAHAN: So like seeing, you understand, I had like a visceral response when Trump tells one of many reporters on Air Force One to settle down Piggy and–.
Is there’s a way of camaraderie with different feminine reporters particularly like, hey woman, you good? That’s insane.
NCS ANCHOR KAITLAN COLLINS: Yeah. There is, yeah, yeah there’s. And I reached out to her after that as a result of it’s simply inappropriate. And I feel it’s a must to at the least say, hey, that’s not cool.
Or I can keep in mind when the president did this to Wei Zhejiang once we had been in spherical one. And she requested him a query about COVID and he advised her to go ask China that query.
She grew up in West Virginia. And so we simply, in that second, and he tried to maneuver on to me in that motion. And I used to be like, no, no. She has a follow-up and I’m gonna let her comply with up.
Because it was identical to, you possibly can’t, somebody has to face up for it and have a spine in that second.
Because should you don’t in that moments, one, it sends a message to the press corps, but additionally it sends message to everybody who’s watching.
And I do suppose solidarity is essential. I don’t suppose everybody has to ask the identical query. I feel reporters can ask what they wish to ask. They confirmed up that day.
But I do suppose following up and solidarity is efficient and it solely furthers all of our, our jobs and mission.