Who is Catherine Lucey? The Bloomberg reporter Trump called 'piggy'

The reporter who President Donald Trump angrily called 'piggy' as she questioned him about the Epstein files was revealed to be longtime journalist Catherine Lucey.

The White House reporter for Bloomberg News had been asking Friday about the trove of emails from Jeffrey Epstein's estate released by the House Oversight Committee before being thrust into the limelight for all the wrong reasons.

Lucey appeared to ask Trump a question relating to Epstein before the president began waving a finger in her face. 

'Quiet, quiet piggy!' Trump snapped a Lucey stood off camera, in footage released by the White House.

A White House official defended Trump's treatment of the journalist to the Daily Mail, saying Lucey 'behaved in an inappropriate and unprofessional way towards her colleagues on the plane.'

'If you're going to give it, you have to be able to take,' the official added.

Lucey is an an accomplished political journalist with more than two decades of experience.

She joined Bloomberg nearly a year ago, and previously worked as a White House reporter at both the Wall Street Journal and the Associated Press. 

Before that, she reported on Iowa's state government for the Associated Press after a lengthy stint as a City Hall reporter for the Philadelphia Daily News. 

She got her start as an editorial assistant for the Associated Press in 2001, her LinkedIn profile shows.

Lucey has yet to comment on the controversy erupting over Trump's comments, which CNN's Jake Tapper slammed as 'disgusting.'  

The president also lashed out against Lucey on Sunday, after she asked about an interview Tucker Carlson did with right-wing provocateur Nick Fuentes.

'You are the worst! You're with Bloomberg, right? You are the worst!' Trump told Lucey at the time. 

'I don't know why they even have you.' 

Lucey did not appear to offer a response to either attack.  

The back-and-forth happened ahead of a hotly anticipated House vote that will now see the full Jeffrey Epstein case files released.

The House overwhelmingly passed a bill signed by Trump that will compel the Justice Department to release all its records surrounding the Epstein case on Tuesday.

'It's really a Democrat problem. The Democrats were Epstein's friends, all of them, and it's a hoax,' Trump told onlookers in the Oval Office after signing the bill into law Monday.

On Sunday, Trump posted on Truth Social that House Republicans should vote to release the files, saying, 'we have nothing to hide.'

The president has faced pressure in recent months, to release the files and about the extent of his relationship with the late Epstein.