Yesterday I saw Chanel Rion in the West Wing. I was surprised: I had heard she’d gotten kicked out of the briefing room. Yet there she was, standing in the back. She spoke in an authoritative manner with the president about issues of the day.

I first heard about Chanel Rion, a One America News reporter, from @b_novak, who described her Budapest meeting with Rudolph Giuliani. At the White House, she stood on pebble beach, leaving a laptop with an OANN sticker near my kit. https://tinyurl.com/wsma48m ">https://tinyurl.com/wsma48m&q...

@TamarLapin told the story about Chanel Rion getting kicked out of the West Wing several days ago. https://tinyurl.com/tfrqkmj ">https://tinyurl.com/tfrqkmj&q...

Thanks to @MailOnline (h/t @judesheerin), I now know more: she says she met her fiancé at a CIA recruiting event. Moving up is easier when you drop the H bomb: in her case, it was “the Harvard Extension School”, rather than Harvard. Yet it worked. https://tinyurl.com/rv3al2x ">https://tinyurl.com/rv3al2x&q...

America has a tradition of self-invention, from Jay Gatsby to Holly Golightly. Chanel Rion, who has done something similar, found a kindred spirit in the briefing room: a former reality TV host, playing to a socially-distanced crowd. Between the two of them, it was quite a show