Andrea Lawful-Sanders, the first person to interview President Joe Biden after his debate with former President Donald Trump on July 3, was fired after she revealed on CNN that she accepted and used questions provided to her by the Biden campaign for the interview.

Lawful-Sanders, who was a host on WURD Radio, said during her interview with Victor Blackwell on his Saturday morning show that she was offered eight questions by the campaign to ask Biden, of which she asked four of them.

Blackwell noted on the air in response: “If the White House is trying to prove the vim, vigor, and acuity of the president, I don’t know how they do that by sending questions first before the interview and the president knows what is coming.”

Within minutes after the segment ran, the reactions from reporters, as well as supporters hoping to halt the bad optics of her admission, were on social media, weighing on how bad this looked for both the White House and journalism.

Lawful-Sanders was fired from her job the next day. The radio station issued a statement and said it was not involved in the negotiations over the interview.

“The interview contained predetermined questions provided by the White House, which violates our practice of remaining an independent media outlet accountable to our listeners. As a result, Ms. Lawful-Sanders and WURD Radio have mutually agreed to part ways, effective immediately,” the network noted in a statement.

“WURD Radio is not a mouthpiece for Biden or any other Administration,” the station said.

WURD Radio boasts it is the only black-owned talk radio station in both the city of Philadelphia and in the entire state of Pennsylvania. Since its inception in the 1950s, it has gone through several owners — it is now owned by the Lomax family, who established a format that focuses on the black community of the state’s largest city.

Philadelphia also has the largest concentration of minority residents in the state and is considered a minority-majority city.

In April, ex-ESPN host Sage Steele revealed that the network told her to use a script during a pre-taped interview with Biden in 2021, saying that the whole interview with Biden was entirely scripted.

Lawful-Sanders’s questions resembled the ones asked the day after by Earl Ingram in Milwaukee, which included: “Can you speak to some accomplishments that we may or not be familiar with about your record?” and “What do you say to the people who plan on sitting this election out?”

Ingram, the host in Milwaukee, told ABC News that he was also supplied with multiple questions by the Biden team, of which he asked four.

A Biden White House spokesperson told Axios reporter Alex Thompson that the “White House did not manage the process or the questions. This was a campaign interview and, as such, it was handled by the campaign and our Black Media Director. To overcommunicate, the White House Black media director was not involved because it was a campaign interview and not a White House one.”

Jake Lahut, a Daily Beast reporter, said a source who is familiar with the booking operations of the president’s campaign said that the practice will be discontinued.