Underestimated and typecast as a younger, dumb blonde, White Home Press Secretary and New Hampshire native Karoline Leavitt has emerged because the feisty face of the Trump White Home.
Leavitt, simply 27, has weathered robust criticism from the left wing media for publicly rebuking or ignoring reporters she felt had been unfair to President Trump, together with powerhouses just like the AP and Wall Road Journal.
She is going to choke off entry to some media, utilizing hardball techniques to make her level – however that’s what Trump needs. Leavitt eliminated the Journal from the press pool throughout a current journey to Scotland after the paper printed a report alleging Trump despatched a bawdy, sexually suggestive message to Jeffrey Epstein in 2003.
“Because of the Wall Road Journal’s pretend and defamatory conduct, they won’t be one of many 13 retailers on board,” she mentioned in a press release.
Throughout a press briefing this week, she blasted the media and Democrats for “spew(ing) lies, figuring out they’re lies,” concerning the Russia collusion hoax.
“You had main Democratic Get together officers on this metropolis, particularly Adam Schiff, Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Warren, who went on tv and advised the American folks, Donald Trump is an asset of Russia. It was a lie, they at all times knew it,” she mentioned. “All people simply ran with the lies…It’s an entire rip-off and a scandal and the President needs to see accountability for that.”
She additionally slammed media darling Barack Obama for what she referred to as a conspiracy to intentionally mislead voters.
Born and bred within the Granite State, Leavitt is a graduate of Saint Anselm Faculty and commenced working for Fox Information as a scholar in 2016.
She ran for the U.S. Home in New Hampshire in 2022, dropping within the common election.
Since taking on as Press Secretary, considered one of her first acts was to take management of White Home pool rotations from the White Home Correspondents’ Affiliation, the longtime stuffy group that’s used to controlling the media in Washington.
Trump in truth has been essentially the most accessible and visual president in current historical past, taking hours of generally hostile questions in some circumstances.
It generally backfires on him, however Trump isn’t going to alter his type now.
Leavitt has not solely punished some media for his or her protection, she has widened entry to the White Home to non-traditional media like conservative podcasters and bloggers. Leavitt cited the collapsing public belief within the conventional East Coast, West Coast media as a motive for letting bloggers and others in on questions throughout briefings.
That has irked the normal media, and her penchant for scolding reporters throughout White Home press briefings has led to vicious headlines within the liberal media like, “Why Karoline Leavitt is so annoying.”
She has additionally endured withering criticism about her alternative of clothes, the age of her husband and the actual fact she often wears a cross necklace as a show of her religion.
However Leavitt notably has not made any main errors throughout her press secretary reign or run from the media, like her predecessor from the Biden White Home.
How many individuals her age might step proper within the firing line and take command like Leavitt has?
