1. Jonathan David Karl was born on January 19,1968 and is an American political journalist and author.
20 Facts About Jonathan Karl
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Jonathan Karl has been the Chief Washington Correspondent for ABC News and co-anchor of This Week with George Stephanopoulos.
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Jonathan Karl served as the Chief White House Correspondent for ABC News from December 2012 through the end of the Donald Trump administration in January 2021.
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Jonathan Karl is the author of the 2020 book Front Row at the Trump Show and the 2021 book Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show.
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Jonathan Karl's father ran Karl's Autobody in Stamford, Connecticut, founded by his own father, James, in 1925.
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Jonathan Karl graduated from Darien High School in Darien, Connecticut.
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Jonathan Karl graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar College in 1990, where he was the editor-in-chief of the Vassar Spectator.
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Jonathan Karl married Maria Nova Catalano in 1991 in Ridgewood, New Jersey.
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Jonathan Karl began his career as a researcher and reporter for The New Republic.
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Jonathan Karl joined ABC News in January 2003 as the Senior Foreign Affairs Correspondent covering the State Department.
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Jonathan Karl worked for ABC News covering national political news, becoming the Senior National Security Correspondent in December 2005.
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Jonathan Karl was named Chief White House Correspondent for ABC News in December 2012 and held that position through the end of the Trump administration in January 2021.
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Jonathan Karl is currently ABC News' Chief Washington correspondent and co-anchor of This Week with George Stephanopoulos.
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Jonathan Karl's writings have been published in The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, among other publications.
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In May 2013, Jonathan Karl wrote an article about the reaction of Barack Obama's administration to the 2012 Benghazi attack in which he claimed to quote directly from an email sent by a White House advisor.
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Jonathan Karl apologized for the error and for not having stated that the quote was from a summary his source had provided, rather than a direct quote from the email.
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Jonathan Karl is the author of the 1995 book The Right to Bear Arms: The Rise of America's New Militias.
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Jonathan Karl explains, calmly and rationally, the dangers presented when our leaders disregard truth or challenge democratic norms for personal gain.
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Jonathan Karl released audio from his March 2021 Trump interview for the book in which Trump defended the "hang Mike Pence" chants of rioters during the 2021 United States Capitol attack on January 6 as "understandable" since Pence had not overturned the 2020 election results as requested.
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In 2021, Jonathan Karl received the Merriman Smith Memorial Award for Excellence in Presidential News Coverage for his reporting on Donald Trump's infection with COVID-19.