White House Was ‘Allergic to Transparency’ [WATCH]

Michael LaRosa, who served as press secretary to former First Lady Jill Biden, spoke out on Sunday about what he described as a culture of secrecy within the Biden White House.

In an interview with “Fox & Friends Weekend” co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy, LaRosa detailed a pattern of evasiveness and lack of openness that, according to him, characterized the East Wing during his time in the administration.

“This was a group in the White House who were allergic to transparency, and I’m talking about just in the East Wing,” LaRosa said during the Fox News segment.

“The very first day walking into the White House, the usher was fired, and I couldn’t get reporters straight answers, because nobody would give me straight answers.”

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LaRosa served as Jill Biden’s press secretary from 2021 until 2022, during the early years of the Biden-Harris administration.

He emphasized that his comments were not intended to assess Joe Biden’s cognitive fitness for office.

However, the interview aired as questions surrounding the president’s memory and mental acuity have continued to grow, especially after audio surfaced that reportedly captured Biden struggling to recall key details during a special counsel investigation into his handling of classified documents.

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“What I am suggesting… [is] it was not intuitive… it was not their style to be transparent about anything,” LaRosa told Campos-Duffy.

“They took days and months to be deliberative, and I’m talking about the small things, about when the dog bites occurred,” he added, referencing incidents involving the Biden family’s German Shepherd, Major, who had reportedly bitten multiple individuals while at the White House.

LaRosa went on to describe an internal environment where even minor events were handled with unnecessary secrecy.

“Or about the wedding with the grandkids,” he said. “They got caught lying to the press about press coverage, because they were so scared to be transparent about anything.”

According to LaRosa, the administration’s unwillingness to communicate openly about small, day-to-day matters led him to question how it might handle more serious or consequential issues.

“I said to myself at some point, ‘If it’s this hard to get them to just be transparent and disclose things and to just be upfront from the beginning about anything, even the small things… My God, what would happen if there were big things?’”

Despite mounting scrutiny over Joe Biden’s mental sharpness, LaRosa expressed skepticism that earlier release of audio tapes or other material would have significantly altered the outcome of the 2024 election cycle.

“Even if tapes had come out sooner, I don’t think it would’ve been enough to push him out of the race,” he said.

LaRosa’s remarks come amid a broader wave of public criticism and internal party tension surrounding the Biden family’s influence over White House operations.

His interview provides a rare public glimpse into internal frustrations among staff and the communications challenges that plagued the East Wing during Biden’s presidency.

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