The new hire of President Donald Trump’s press office has already posed with a rifle and a shirt that reads “F–K JOE BIDEN.”
Beni Rae Harmony, 24, announced Friday that she had been hired as deputy press secretary and White House spokesperson. The image was discovered shortly after by anti-MAGA accounts on social media.
Former Virginia Republican congressional candidate Jarome Bell posted Harmony’s photo on Instagram in 2021. His caption reads: “My campaign public affairs director @beniraeharmony is a beast. That’s how we roll.”
Harmony’s official Instagram account liked the post.
Bell ran for Congress in 2022, and while Harmony’s LinkedIn page doesn’t mention her by name, it lists her as the public affairs director of a “US political campaign” at that time. The description says one of his responsibilities was serving as a liaison to the Virginia Beach Republican Party, where Bell ran.
Harmony joins the White House press team amid an exodus of White House staff that began with the resignation of former press secretary Karoline Leavitt in August.
For the past year, Harmony has served as a White House correspondent for the right-wing network Real America’s Voice. The channel airs Steve Bannon’s weekday show, The Charlie Kirk Show hosted by Blake Neff and Andrew Kolvet, and Ted Nugent’s Spiritual campfire.
Harmony joined Real America’s Voice after leaving WICS-ABC20 in Springfield, Illinois, where she says she was suspended for sharing a spontaneous on-air tribute to Charlie Kirk after his September 2025 assassination.
She said the tribute was “non-partisan” and called Kirk, with whom she worked at Turning Point USA from 2020 to 2021, a “mentor.” According to his LinkedIn profile, Harmony also interned with Arizona Republican Congressman Paul Gosar and scandal-plagued former Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz.
Last month, Harmony traveled with the press group on Trump’s trip to Ireland, and last week she took CNN’s place on Air Force One when Trump visited Tennessee for a college football game.
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