{"id":1620788,"date":"2022-08-23T19:01:57","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T23:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1620788"},"modified":"2022-08-23T19:03:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T23:03:21","slug":"another-white-house-official-departs-biden-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/another-white-house-official-departs-biden-administration\/","title":{"rendered":"Another White House Official Departs Biden Administration"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fanother-white-house-official-departs-biden-administration%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1620788&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Another White House official has departed President Joe Biden\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n<p>Senior White House adviser for public engagement, Trey Baker, helped lead the administration\u2019s efforts to court black voters, a crucial segment of the president\u2019s base, during the 2020 presidential election. He also worked as the go between the White House and Biden\u2019s black base, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-08-22\/biden-liaison-to-black-community-leaves-white-house-for-law-firm#xj4y7vzkg\">Bloomberg reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Baker is one of Biden\u2019s longest serving aides and departed the administration on Monday to work for the law firm Barnes &#038; Thornburg.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe had to handle some hot potatoes,\u201d Reverend Al Sharpton, a famed civil rights leader, said in a telephone interview with Bloomberg, referring to the race-related riots following the death of George Floyd, who died after a police officer knelt on his neck for several minutes. \u201cTrey was the real connection between civil-rights leadership, the White House and the campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-427572\" class=\"wp-image-427572 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/GettyImages-1242569397-1-864x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"864\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/GettyImages-1242569397-1-864x576-1.jpg 864w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/GettyImages-1242569397-1-300x200-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/GettyImages-1242569397-1-768x512-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/GettyImages-1242569397-1-1536x1024-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/GettyImages-1242569397-1-2048x1365-1.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/GettyImages-1242569397-1-1800x1200-1.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/GettyImages-1242569397-1-1200x800-1.jpg 1200w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-427572\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WASHINGTON, DC August 16, 2022:\u00a0US President Joe Biden hands Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.VA) the pen used to sign into law H.R. 5376, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (climate change and health care bill) in the State Dining Room of the White House on Tuesday August 16, 2022. \u00a0(Photo by Demetrius Freeman\/The Washington Post via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>The news came shortly before word got out that Biden\u2019s\u00a0bodyman and personal aide, Stephen Goepfert, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/bidens-bodyman-confidante-leaves-him-for-department-of-transportation\">will leave<\/a> the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/white-house\">White House<\/a>\u00a0and head to the Department of Transportation at the end of the week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom the campaign to the White House, Stephen Goepfert has been by my side,\u201d Biden said in a statement,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/08\/23\/politics\/stephen-goepfert-joe-biden-white-house\/index.html\">CNN reported<\/a>. \u201cIn moments big, small, and extraordinary, he\u2019s been a trusted and loyal confidant who everyone counts on and who always delivers. Jill and I will miss Stephen, but we\u2019re proud that he will continue to serve the American people in his new role in the Biden-Harris administration as he continues his career in public service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Goepfert, the first openly gay personal aide to a president, has likely spent more time by the president\u2019s side than other any other White House aide since his 2020 presidential campaign, CNN reported, describing him as a \u201ckey cog\u201d on Biden\u2019s team.<\/p>\n<p>Goepfert and Baker are two of many White House employees to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11138285\/Bidens-bodyman-QUITS-job-Transportation-Department.html\">depart the administration<\/a>\u00a0in recent months: White House Rapid Response Director Mike Gwin and Press Assistant Michael Kikukawa both headed to the Treasury Department, while Assistant White House Press Secretary Vedant Patel is now a deputy spokesperson at the State Department.<\/p>\n<p>White House Press Office Chief of Staff Amanda Finney went to the Energy Department in June, and Symone Sanders, the former chief spokesperson for Vice President Kamala Harris, now hosts a show at MSNBC \u2014 where former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki also headed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another White House official has departed President Joe Biden\u2019s administration. Senior White House adviser for public engagement, Trey Baker, helped lead the administration\u2019s efforts to court black voters, a crucial segment of the president\u2019s base, during the 2020 presidential election. He also worked as the go between the White House and Biden\u2019s black base, Bloomberg &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1620790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1620788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1620788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1620790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1620788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1620788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1620788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}