Former Miss America Erika Harold criticized recent media coverage of disgraced — and convicted — Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, arguing that a New York Times article profiling her “new image” was essentially rewarding her behavior.

Harold, who parlayed her 2003 pageant victory into a Harvard Law degree, critiqued the piece in a Sunday tweet. “We must stop rewarding bad behavior w/clout + clicks. Elizabeth Holmes isn’t being punished b/c she girl bossed ‘too close to the sun.’ She intentionally misled people re a biotechnological device, impacting patients, investors + employees. She doesn’t deserve a phoenix narrative.”

We must stop rewarding bad behavior w/clout + clicks. Elizabeth Holmes isn’t being punished b/c she girl bossed “too close to the sun.” She intentionally misled people re a biotechnological device, impacting patients, investors + employees. She doesn’t deserve a phoenix narrative https://t.co/Vi5yHi6IAd

— Erika Harold (@ErikaHarold) May 7, 2023

She quoted a tweet sharing NYT article — titled “Liz Holmes Wants You to Forget About Elizabeth” — along with the caption, “The black turtlenecks are gone. So is the voice. As the convicted Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes awaits prison, she has adopted a new persona.”

The “new persona,” according to the article, is “devoted mother” of two young children with partner Billy Evans — and her reinvention comes just ahead of her imminent prison sentence for corporate fraud over Theranos, her blood-testing startup.

The interview, published on Sunday, was conducted at the San Diego Zoo — with Evans and the two children in tow — by the Times’ former reporter-at-large Amy Chozick.

The implication that a transformation has taken place is reinforced by the fact that Holmes, when talking about her time with Theranos, claimed to have not been herself at all but rather a character that she had created.

Responding to Chozick, who told her that actress Jennifer Lawrence had backed out of playing her in a film, Holmes said simply, “They’re not playing me. They’re playing a character I created.”

As to why she believed she “created” that character, Holmes said, “I believed it would be how I would be good at business and taken seriously and not taken as a little girl or a girl who didn’t have good technical ideas. Maybe people picked up on that not being authentic, since it wasn’t.”

Texas Governor Greg Abbott slammed President Joe Biden and his administration on Sunday in response to the border crisis that the administration has caused with its policies which comes as the situation at the border is expected to get significantly worse this week as Title 42 is set to expire.

Abbott made the remarks on “Fox News Sunday” with host Shannon Bream when asked about comments from Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who claimed that the border is closed and that the immigration problem is Congress’ fault.

Bream also noted that the White House is trying to blame Abbott in-part for the immigration crisis because he has shipped some illegal aliens to blue states because Texas simply does not have the resources to deal with the surge in illegal aliens.

“Well, first of all, the reason why we are busing those migrants across the country is because small little towns on the border like Del Rio and Eagle Pass, they have no capacity to deal with the number of people coming across the border, and we have to relieve the congestion in those small communities and bus them to larger communities,” Abbott responded. “That said, Shannon, it must be pointed out also, everything that you just said that Mayorkas said is just a flat out lie or total ignorance. He says that the border is closed. Everybody in America knows that the border is not closed and it’s more open.”

Abbott noted that the border situation was significantly better under the Trump administration and that it rapidly deteriorated “only when Biden came in and eliminated all those policies and put down a welcome back — welcome mat to the entire world that the border is now open, that we suddenly have the chaos that has caused solely by policies put into place by Joe Biden.”

Abbott laughed on Biden’s attempt to place a small number of troops along the 2,000 mile U.S.-Mexico border, saying that Biden was sending them there “to do paperwork, and he’s not going to secure the border.”

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