NBC taps left-wing journalist Yamiche Alcindor to cover Trump in return to White House press team

Leftist journalist Yamiche Alcindor announced Monday that she will return to the White House to cover the new Trump administration for NBC News after an extended hiatus.

“I’m returning to the White House for @NBCNews to cover the second Trump administration. It’s a true honor to be a reporter and I welcome all news tips and story ideas,” Alcindor wrote.

Alcindor was accused of obvious liberal bias as a PBS White House correspondent and New York Times reporter during President-elect Donald Trump’s first term, where she regularly sparred with the president in contentious public exchanges.

She was first named PBS’ “NewsHour” White House correspondent in 2018. NBC News tapped her to be their Washington correspondent in 2021, but Alcindor’s history of alarmist anti-GOP comments continued in her new roles.

Months before he joined NBC News, Alcindor hit the headlines when she revealed that she felt it her duty to use journalism to bend the “moral bow toward justice.”

During her career, she developed a reputation for often spicing up her reporting with liberal commentary and editorializing to champion liberal causes.

While covering Trump, Alcindor was praised by her liberal compatriots in the press for her combative approach to his administration. Trump’s criticisms and against her – he tore it off once for asking a “racist question” – only strengthened her adoration in the press corps.

After President Biden took office, Alcindor’s radical change in tone was unsurprising — but noteworthy. She frequently praised White House Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and the administration, praising Biden at his first press conference as a “moral, decent man” and asking Biden to heal the “scars” in Europe left by Trump.

“One of the things that Biden administration officials emphasized when I talked to them is that when you look at American democracy, whether it’s Republicans or Democrats, they still felt that America was a leader and that America valued our European allies, and that was lost, in large part, when it comes to President Trump, who is just openly hostile and in some ways has been so mean to our European allies,” she said in June 2021.

Alcindor also often added “context” on Twitter when reporting on Trump’s remarks, while generally not adding such errors to Biden’s. Fox News Digital reported 2021. that Alcindor’s anonymous sources often presented topics reminiscent of the Democratic agenda and favorable to the Biden administration.

She was once accused of “propaganda” comments showering Biden with excessive praise after a press briefing that drew negative attention.

In 2022, the then-NBC News correspondent and PBS anchor worried that Roe would be overturned Supreme Court, poor women would be “forced into pregnancy” which would “then turn into children, which they cannot afford”.

That same year, Alcindor said people were “very worried” that Trump or another Republican would “steal” the 2024 election.

In an appearance on MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House,” around that time, Alcindor argued that Georgia’s voting rights bill was passed because Republicans don’t think blacks deserve access to citizenship.

Discussing Trump’s relationship with the press in 2020. said Alcindor“Covering President Trump, you have to add context. You have to tell people when he’s wrong and when he’s right.”

Her announcement of her return to the White House drew criticism online, with some chastising NBC for casting an “extreme leftist” in the coveted role.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP

“Wow, good to see @NBCNews learned— *checks notes* —nothing. They learned absolutely nothing from their mistakes,” conservative writer John Hasson wrote on X .

‘Funny. You’ve been terrible and extremely combative,” agreed former Republican congressional candidate Kim Klacik. “It’s like @NBCNews wants to go out of business.”

David Rutz of Fox News contributed to this report.