Donald Trump introduced Karoline Leavitt because the incoming White Home press secretary on Friday. Leavitt beforehand served as his marketing campaign’s nationwide press secretary and ran unsuccessfully in 2022 for a New Hampshire congressional seat.
Her rise follows the same trajectory to different integrity-free Republicans. In keeping with CNN, Leavitt labored within the first Trump White Home as an assistant press secretary earlier than leaving to develop into Rep. Elise Stefanik’s communications director.
After the coup try on the Capitol constructing on Jan. 6, Leavitt made two social media posts which have since been deleted justifiably criticizing the rebel. The primary included video of then-Vice President Mike Pence presiding over the certification of the 2020 election voting outcomes, calling the assault on the Capitol “a dark day in the history of the United States Capitol.”
The second submit praised a Capitol police officer who tricked insurrectionists by main them away from congressional members.
Leavitt, not in contrast to Stefanik, has shortly gone from criticizing the “anti-American” rebel to changing into each an election and an rebel denier. Stefanik was lately introduced as Trump’s ambassador to the U.N., proving that her willingness to debase herself is among the solely standards being checked off by the incoming administration.
In order for you a preview of what we’re more likely to see with Leavitt within the White Home Briefing Room, you want solely have a look at how she has carried out throughout Trump’s marketing campaign.
Leavitt’s willingness to lie unabashedly was on show all through 2024. In August, she denied the Trump marketing campaign had any connections to Venture 2025 in an interview with right-wing podcaster Steven Crowder. She did this having already appeared herself in a Venture 2025 coaching video.
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Trump selects Karoline Leavitt, who was featured within the Venture 2025 coaching video on “The Art of Professionalism,” to be his White Home Press Secretary. Trump has claimed he is aware of nothing about Venture 2025 and it doesn’t symbolize his coverage views. pic.twitter.com/TrPaBnPKRa
— Republican Voters In opposition to Trump (@AccountableGOP) November 18, 2024
Leavitt additionally excelled in selling the alternate actuality that Trump’s many disastrous press conferences showcased the “discipline” of his marketing campaign. CNN host Kate Bolduan lower an interview with Leavitt brief after she refused to reply direct questions in regards to the anti-immigrant disinformation the Trump marketing campaign was peddling. When confronted with information debunking statements about FEMA cash “being stolen” to accommodate immigrants, Leavitt merely mentioned it didn’t matter what was true.
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