On Tuesday afternoon, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt came locked and loaded to take on the America Last liberal media and blasted many of them for seeming to be rooting for President Trump to fail in not only bringing down crime in Washington D.C. by federalizing the police and bringing in National Guard troops, but also his moves to bring peace in eastern Europe by ending the war between Russia and Ukraine.
First, she went hard in the paint against the liberal media for Trump’s deep desire to see the war started by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine come to an end as an entire generation on both sides have been killed since it started in 2022 on Joe Biden’s watch:
The other portion of her opening statement touched on the lawlessness in D.C.:
Having made her positions (and the facts) clear to the liberal media, Leavitt opened up the Q&A with the “new media seat,” which went to Human Events senior editor and Real America’s Voice host Jack Posobiec:
The snippiest part of the Q&A came later as The New York Times’s Shawn McCreesh wondered why Trump didn’t call Putin during his meeting with Ukraine’s Zelenskyy and European leaders so everyone could talk to each other.
Leavitt blasted this as a smart aleck take:
In far less tense back-and-forth, NewsNation’s Libbey Dean and the New York Post’s Steven Nelson asked welcome questions of substance about President Trump’s moves to restore order to the streets of Washington D.C.:
Our friend and 2023 MRC Bulldog Award winner Mary Margaret Olohan of the Daily Wire followed up on something President Trump told Fox & Friends hours earlier about wanting to go to heaven:
Fox’s Jacqui Heinrich was eventually called on, but it was a short and somewhat tense exchange:
To see the relevant transcript from the August 19 briefing, click here.
