01-29-2021, 07:21 AM
Reading the story from Time, it appears this interpreter is not the White House interpreter, but an interpreter from a pool of interpreters of some kind.
Notice the language used in introducing her,
”But it turns out the first ASL interpreter chosen was not such a change from the previous Administration after all. Heather Mewshaw, who Psaki introduced on Monday as “today’s interpreter, Heather,” also appears to manage a group of ASL interpreters who provide sign language accompaniments to right-wing videos. Some of these videos have featured vaccine misinformation, conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and the Jan. 6 riots at the Capitol, and false claims about Michelle Obama being transgender, according to a review of social media posts by TIME.”
The information in the Time article also makes it clear that her willingness to propagate widely known to be false information and information known to be deleterious to public health and safety, make her an inappropriate choice to act as a reliable conveyer of information from the administration to the public.
Notice the language used in introducing her,
”But it turns out the first ASL interpreter chosen was not such a change from the previous Administration after all. Heather Mewshaw, who Psaki introduced on Monday as “today’s interpreter, Heather,” also appears to manage a group of ASL interpreters who provide sign language accompaniments to right-wing videos. Some of these videos have featured vaccine misinformation, conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and the Jan. 6 riots at the Capitol, and false claims about Michelle Obama being transgender, according to a review of social media posts by TIME.”
The information in the Time article also makes it clear that her willingness to propagate widely known to be false information and information known to be deleterious to public health and safety, make her an inappropriate choice to act as a reliable conveyer of information from the administration to the public.