Welcome to Leavittown: Press Secretary Torches Press Over New Anti-Trump Smear

Curtis Houck
February 12th, 2025 5:49 PM

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Having decided in recent days to collectively settle on a new narrative of painting the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) as a constitutional crisis and defend faceless, unelected bureaucrats as heroes, the liberal media Borg were handed a brutal reality check Wednesday with White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt made clear this disinformation campaign wouldn’t be tolerated.

Leavitt had this to say about the liberal media’s “fear-mongering” and claims the administration would ignore (far-left) federal judges yielding “radical injunctions” thwarting DOGE and ignoring the will of the people:

Thankfully, the thin-skinned liberal media reporters largely behaved themselves when it came to this issue.

Sitting in the new media seat and thus kicking off the briefing’s Q&A? Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovski:

After a questions from Bloomberg’s Jordan Fabian about inflation and tariffs, CBS’s Jennifer Jacobs respectfully asked about whether DOGE has found any evidence of government waste, fraud, and abuse.

Leavitt brought the receipts, including “$57,000 for climate change in Sri Lanka”:

Jacobs followed up on whether the examples in Leavitt’s lengthy answer are “fraud,” “waste, or...just contrary to the President’s policies.”

Leavitt calmly responded that she “would argue that all of these things are fraudulent, they are wasteful, and they are an abuse of the American taxpayers dollar” and “not what the American government should be spending money on,” but “anybody in here” was free to insist they’re worthwhile.

Our friend Mary Margaret Olohan at the Daily Wire asked Leavitt to elaborate on the administration’s view of judges standing in the way of Trump’s agenda:

A few minutes later, Real Clear Politics’s Philip Wegmann brought up the other dominant news story, Russia and Ukraine (click the tweet to see the whole thread, including follow-ups):

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins — who peddled fear-morn on her primetime show Monday night insisting America’s on the verge of a “constitution crisis” — chose instead to ask about Russia vs. Ukraine and then pitch a small fit about the White House keeping the Associated Press from press pool events (attended by wire services, one print, one radio, and one TV reporter) because the outlet refuses to comply with the Gulf of Mexico’s name change to the Gulf of America:

In her second question, Collins fretted this was “retaliatory in nature” against the AP and has created “ a precedent that the White House will retaliate against reporters who don’t use the language you guys believe reporters should use.”

Leavitt replied to the arrogant former conservative reporter-turned-corporate liberal darling that she “was upfront in my briefing on day one if we feel there are lies being pushed by outlets in this room we are going to hold those lies accountable.”

After calling on his fiancé Monica Luisi of TPUSA and hearing her question about declassifying documents on the MLK Jr., JFK, and RJK assassinations, One America News’s Daniel Baldwin shared this stunner about wasteful spending in New York City:

The briefing concluded with Gateway Pundit’s Jordan Conradson, who started with a question that, if asked by a progressive, would have been seen as eyeroll-inducing. Instead, he seemed to have been wanting to make a point about the left’s unhinged nature, which Leavitt diagnosed as the liberal media trying to sow division inside the administration:

To see the relevant transcript from the February 12 briefing (including foreign policy questions from Fox’s Jacqui Heinrich and the New York Post on bellyaching from the city’s far-left comptroller), click here.

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