The bizarre background of Trump’s new favorite White House reporter exposed in wild tabloid investigation
Raw StoryPresident Donald Trump's favorite White House reporter has murky background, a name change, a notorious fiancé, an accused fraudster dad and a TV psychic grandmother. One America News correspondent Chanel Rion saw her profile rise after she was briefly banished last week from the White House briefing room but invited back by since-ousted press secretary Stephanie Grisham, and the Daily Mailtook a deep dive into the reporter's past. She's engaged to Bobby Courtland Sykes, who ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in 2018 and gained notoriety for attacking feminists as "she devils" and insisted his fiancée have dinner ready for him every night at 6 p.m. "I consider cooking my job even if I have a career," Rion told the Daily Mail, "and even if crazy feminists think I shouldn't." They attended Trump's inauguration in January 2017, according to social media photos, and Rion posted photos of a party at the president's Mar-A-Lago resort in December.