Things You never know About The Female CBS Reporter Weijia
Get to know CBS’s Weijia Jiang, who Trump told to ‘keep your voice down’ and ‘relax.’
Another brave female journalist has stood up to Donald Trump with hard questions, only to be patronized and belittled.
CBS News’ White House female reporters are really getting under President Donald Trump‘s skin with their tough questions.
First Paula Reid, 37, was called “fake” for refusing to back down after asking Trump about his lack of response to COVD-19 virus during February.
Now Weijia Jiang, 35, has been patronized and scolded by Trump for another tough question about his late response to the virus.
Trump later told her to “Keep your voice down,” and “Nice and easy. Nice and easy, just relax,” in an arrogant way he that doesn’t usually address to male reporters.
CBS News reporter Weijia Jiang does an EXCELLENT JOB putting trump's feet to the fire and sticks to why didn't he warn Americans instead of rallies and golf.
— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) April 19, 2020
He tried to pivot to the China ban and DEM debate, but she wasn't having ANY of it.
This was ?????!!! pic.twitter.com/SrwD7kkWjZ
“Many Americans are saying the exact same thing about you, that you should have warned them the virus was spreading like wildfire through the month of February, instead of holding rallies with thousands of people,” Weijia said during an Apr. 19 news conference.
“Why did you wait so long to warn them and why did you not have social distancing until March 16?” she asked.
So I asked him about what he was doing in February. (Rallies.)
— Weijia Jiang (@weijia) April 20, 2020
And what he has to say to the many Americans who wonder why he did not warn them sooner that the virus was spreading like wildfire at the time.
(He told me to relax.) https://t.co/IW0IKKkBJ7
Trump demanded to know “who are you with?” He then talked about his late January travel ban on incoming flights from China. “Chinese nationals. But by the way, not Americans who were also coming in from China,” Weijia corrected the president.
“Nice and easy. Nice and easy, just relax,” he patronizingly scolded her after she caught him in his misinformation. You can see the rest of the exchange in the video below. We’ve got five things to know about Weijia Jiang.
Weijia joined CBS news in 2015. After working for several CBS news local affiliates, Weijia made the jump from New York’s WCBS-TV to the network level.
She has contributed to the CBS Evening News, CBS This Morning and CBSN, CBS News 24 hour streaming service.
Weijia has followed her passion for journalism since she was 13-years-old. She started her career a student reporter and anchor for Channel One News in Los Angeles.
The news service was streamed into junior high and high school classrooms across the nation, with teens providing national and world news for other teens.
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It’s the same news service that gave CNN’s Anderson Cooper his break into journalism in the early-mid 90s. Journalist Lisa Ling is also a Channel One alum.
Weijia was born in China but raised in the United States. She was born in Xiamen, China, and grew up in West Virginia after her restaurateur parents emigrated to the United States when she was a toddler.
She still considers herself a native of the state, including “Chinese born West Virginian” in her Twitter profile.
