President Barack Obama Alma mater American University Preceded by Dan Pfeiffer Name Jennifer Palmieri | Succeeded by Jen Psaki Education American University Political party Democratic Party Democratic Party | |
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Jennifer palmieri on the state of the union
Jennifer Palmieri (; born November 15, 1966) is the former White House Director of Communications and Director of Communications for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign.
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- Jennifer palmieri on the state of the union
- Hillary clinton kicks off campaign in iowa jennifer palmieri interview april 14 2015
- Career
- Wikileaks 2016 email hack
- Hillary Clinton Presidential Campaign 2016
- References
Hillary clinton kicks off campaign in iowa jennifer palmieri interview april 14 2015
Career
Palmieri served as White House Communications Director for U.S. President Barack Obama. Prior to her service at the White House, she served as the President of the Center for American Progress Action Fund. Earlier, Palmieri was the National Press Secretary for the 2004 John Edwards presidential campaign and for the Democratic National Committee in 2002. She served as a Deputy White House Press Secretary, Special Assistant to White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta and Deputy Director of Scheduling and Advance in the Clinton White House.
Palmieri was born in Pascagoula, Mississippi. After attending American University, she began her career working for then Congressman Leon Panetta (D-CA).
Wikileaks 2016 email hack
Palmieri attracted controversy when an email chain allegedly showing Clinton aides joking about Catholics and evangelicals in 2011 was released by Wikileaks. U.S. intelligence agencies concluded that individuals with connections to the Russian government had conducted a spear-phishing attack against Clinton campaign chair John Podesta as part of an operation to prevent Hillary Clinton from winning the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
In the emails between Palmieri, Podesta, and John Halpin of the Center for American Progress, Halpin reportedly wrote that 21st Century Fox Chairman Rupert Murdoch and NewsCorp Chief Executive Robert Thomson were drawn to Catholicism because of the faith's "systemic thought and severely backward gender relations." Palmieri, herself a Catholic, purportedly responded that she believes Murdoch, Thomson, and many other conservatives are Catholic because they think it is “the most socially acceptable politically conservative religion ... Their rich friends wouldn’t understand if they became evangelicals”, she wrote.
The president of CatholicVote.org, a religious conservative 501(c)(4) organization, demanded Palmieri resign from the campaign, saying:
“Everyone has a unique faith journey, and it's just insulting to make blanket statements maligning people’s motives for converting to another faith tradition. Had Palmieri spoken this way about other groups she would dismissed. Palmieri must resign immediately or be fired.”
Podesta did not respond in the email thread. Palmieri said she "didn't recognize (the email) ... [but] we are not going to fact check each of the emails that were stolen, hacked by Russian lead efforts in an effort to hurt our campaign."
Hillary Clinton Presidential Campaign 2016
At a Harvard University forum held on December 1, 2016 to define the Clinton Campaign for the historical record, Palmieri ascribed the loss to (1) alleged white supremacists within the Trump campaign, (2) the e-mail scandal (which she believed reporters should not have covered), and (3) "[that] many political journalists had a personal dislike for the Democratic nominee".