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 accordance 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 rebellion. 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 put up praised a Capitol police officer who tricked insurrectionists by main them away from congressional members.
Leavitt, not not like Stefanik, has shortly gone from criticizing the “anti-American” rebellion to changing into each an election and an rebellion denier. Stefanik was not too long ago introduced as Trump’s ambassador to the U.N., proving that her willingness to debase herself is likely one of the solely standards being checked off by the incoming administration.
If you would like 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 Challenge 2025 in an interview with right-wing podcaster Steven Crowder. She did this having already appeared herself in a Challenge 2025 coaching video.
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 minimize an interview with Leavitt brief after she refused to reply direct questions concerning the anti-immigrant disinformation the Trump marketing campaign was peddling. When confronted with information debunking statements about FEMA cash “being stolen” to deal with immigrants, Leavitt merely mentioned it didn’t matter what was true.
In contrast to Trump’s first short-lived press secretary, Sean Spicer, Leavitt appears to have excised any capability for remorse. In accordance with CBS Information, the 27-year-old Leavitt will develop into the youngest White Home press secretary since disgraced former president Richard Nixon selected 29-year-old Ronald Ziegler for that place in 1969. How becoming.
