CNN correspondent Donie O’Sullivan spent several days with members of the MAGA media movement this week – and asked one whether she sincerely felt she was a journalist.
The pointed question was posed to Natalie Winters, the White House correspondent and co-host of Steve Bannon‘s War Room.
The 23-year-old is one of several MAGA-aligned correspondents now being welcomed to the White House, despite belonging to non-traditional outlets.
O’Sullivan sought to hone in on this new dynamic with a feature for CNN, as Winters and others continue to paint themselves as disruptors.
Others have framed them as a distraction – paving the way for O’Sullivan’s frank inquiry.
‘Are you a real journalist?’ the 34-year-old senior CNN correspondent asked, standing opposite a woman known for wearing provocative outfits to press briefings.
Winters, honing in on how many of her counterparts avoided covering Joe Biden’s mental decline until the last-minute, offered a response both she and The Department of Government Efficiency shared to X.
‘I’m pretty sure the group of people in there spent, what was it, four years covering for someone who was essentially dead, and