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Tara Palmeri
American journalist (born 1987) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Tara Palmeri (born September 1, 1987) is an American journalist. She has worked at news organizations including ABC News, Politico, Puck, New York Post and Washington Examiner.[1][2][3] Palmeri hosts The Tara Palmeri Show on Youtube and writes The Red Letter newsletter. She has also hosted podcasts such as "Broken: Seeking Justice", "Power: The Maxwells" and "Somebody's Gotta Win".[4][5]
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Biography
Palmeri was born on September 1, 1987, in New York.[6] She is a 2005 graduate of DePaul Catholic High School in Wayne, New Jersey.[7] She attended American University and graduated with a bachelor's degree in Public Communication in 2008.[8][9]
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Palmeri started her career at CNN as a news assistant in the D.C. bureau in 2009.
She subsequently joined the Washington Examiner where she co-wrote a daily column called "Yeas & Nays".[9][10][11]
She moved to New York in 2010 when she was hired by the New York Post to write for Page Six.[12] She also worked as a general assignment reporter and first reported the news of Chris Christie's weightloss surgery.[13]
Politico hired her to cover European politics from Brussels in 2015.[14][15] After the 2016 presidential election, Politico reassigned her to Washington as a White House reporter covering the Trump administration.[16] During her tenure, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer called Palmeri "an idiot with no real sources."[17]
CNN announced in 2017 that Palmeri was hired as a political analyst for the network, while continuing to cover President Trump for Politico.[18]
Palmeri was hired by ABC News as a full-time White House correspondent in October 2017.[3]
After ABC, she hosted investigative podcasts for Sony about Jeffrey Epstein and the wealthy family of Ghislaine Maxwell.[5]
Palmeri left ABC News and re-joined Politico to work as a co-author of its newsletter Playbook in 2021.[8]
According to Vanity Fair, White House Deputy Press Secretary TJ Ducklo had threatened Palmeri, telling her he would "destroy her" if she published a story about his relationship with Alexi McCammond, an NBC, MSNBC and Axios reporter. Ducklo during a phone call also reportedly made "derogatory and misogynistic comments" towards Palmeri and accused her of being "jealous" of his relationship with McCammond.[19] On February 12, Ducklo was suspended without pay by the White House for one week.[20] The following day, Ducklo resigned from his White House position over the matter.[21]
In 2022, Palmeri joined the journalism startup Puck[1] as a senior political columnist.[22] At Puck, Palmeri broke the news that Nancy Pelosi would resign as Speaker of the House after the 2022 midterm elections.[23] She also hosted the election-themed podcast, “Somebody’s Gotta Win,” a collaboration between Puck and Spotify’s The Ringer. It ended in April 2025.[5]
She left Puck in March 2025 to move to YouTube.[5] Palmeri has a newsletter called The Red Letter.[5]
Palmeri is a Sine Faculty Fellow for Public Administration and Policy at American University.[24]
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