Well, we will’t say that Jessica Reed Kraus doesn’t hold us guessing. Is she a journalist? A blogger? A busy mother with a ardour for negging girls who accuse males of sexual abuse? Dedicated #spon poster for colostrum powder? A conservative PAC staffer, or—wait, was {that a} member of the White House press corps?
The id that Kraus Inhabits appears to is dependent upon the angle of the solar and whether or not Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is acknowledging her that day, however in a slew of Instagram Stories all through the weekend, Kraus revealed that she’s heading to Idaho in August to “report” on the trial of Bryan Kohberger, who stands accused of murdering 4 University of Idaho college students in 2022, as solely she will. (A decide entered a not-guilty plea on Kohberger’s behalf.) The trial begins in Moscow, Idaho, on August 11.
Kraus constructed her following on Instagram after which Substack by chronicling movie star courtroom instances just like the defamation fits between Amber Heard and Johnny Depp, which settled in 2022. More just lately, she pivoted to politics, fixating on all issues MAHA, and now she’s as soon as once more pirouetting again to movie star, spitting out takes that evoke a form of TMZ-meets-opium-den vibe. You by no means know what the takes will be, however you do know they’re going to be baffling.
In May, Kraus stated on her Stories that she wasn’t masking the Diddy trial as a result of she’d “rather be in unchecked corners where other media isn’t” and that she’s “always attracted to where media interest isn’t.” (She devoted a number of newsletters to masking the trial, whereas additionally whining through Stories that she was having a tricky time as a result of the music is so vital to her.) Naturally, she’s already complaining about “how competitive it is already” amongst media who plan to cowl the trial, based mostly on a Zoom she sat in on in late May.
“Tensions flared over courtroom access and who should get what once the trial starts,” Kraus wrote in her publication (the “truly, the best eight dollars you can spend each month,” in accordance with a Story she posted over the weekend) on May 29. “Someone from mainstream press argued that credentialed outlets deserved priority, implying that us ‘internet sleuths and conspiracy theorists’ shouldn’t be treated as equals. But the judge reiterated that access will be granted on a first-come, first-serve basis through reservations. I fear it’s going to be a full-fledged media circus on that lot come August.”
Ah, sure, the corners of a high-profile quadruple homicide trial. So unchecked.
Her day by day barrage of social media posts is an ever-rotating sampler platter of a really particular Weird Internet delicacies: Recently, she’s began studying the Bible, and has prompt that she begin a “HIH Bible Study.” She spent just a few days on a navy boat throughout Fleet Week, the place former press secretary Sean Spicer posted a number of photographs of her simply…horizontal on the deck. Chillin’.
Recently, there was a string of Instagram Stories about Joe Biden presumably being…a clone? And guarantees of a listing of, let me simply verify my notes to verify I’ve this proper, sure, the “10 sexiest men in the 119th Congress.” She additionally just lately shared photographs of her husband putting in a totally stocked bar, full with uplighting, in her residence workplace. (Remember when she was simply so busy within the White House that she was contemplating renting out an condo within the District?) So, like, sort of anybody’s name whether or not this hack of all trades will spud her method to the Gem State come August. Recently, she posted that readers had expressed curiosity in a broader number of matters from her post-election, which appears like she bought known as out for not really figuring out a lot about politics within the first place. (Remember when she eavesdropped on some man on a bus speaking about tariffs after which revealed a “tariffs for dummies” primer based mostly on that? This is the authority we crave within the age of disinformation.)
To quote Kraus herself: More later.