{"id":16618,"date":"2025-01-30T06:34:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T06:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=16618"},"modified":"2025-01-30T06:34:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T06:34:44","slug":"new-sheriff-in-town-trump-press-secretary-karoline-leavitt-starts-out-with-a-bang-putting-hostile-media-in-their-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=16618","title":{"rendered":"New Sheriff In Town: Trump Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Starts Out With a Bang, Putting Hostile Media In Their Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<!-- post thumbnail --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"tpd-post-thumbnail-container caption_belowImage credit_onImage\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1120\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1120,height=630,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Karoline-Leavitt.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium tpd-force-16x9-aspect-ratio wp-post-image\" alt=\"Karoline Leavitt press conference\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=428,height=241,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Karoline-Leavitt.jpg 430w, https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=788,height=444,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Karoline-Leavitt.jpg 788w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 33.3vw, (max-width: 768px) 428px, 100vw\"\/><figcaption><span class=\"credit-text\">Credit score: Screenshot through PBS NewsHour<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- \/post thumbnail --><\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump\u2019s White Home press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, held her debut press convention with reporters on Tuesday. It was a breath of contemporary air following 4 years of binders, circling again, outrageous falsehoods, and basic incompetence.<\/p>\n<p>Leavitt might not have wanted the binder, however she was well-prepared all the identical. As evidenced <a href=\"https:\/\/rollcall.com\/factbase\/trump\/transcript\/donald-trump-press-conference-briefing-karoline-leavitt-january-28-2025\/\">by an exchange<\/a> with an Related Press reporter who needed to understand how the media could possibly be sure she wouldn\u2019t mislead them. Which is a fairly gutsy assertion coming from a member of the dying legacy media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA query that we\u2019ve requested your predecessors of each events on this job, once you\u2019re up right here on this briefing room, talking to the American public, do you view your self and your function as talking on \u2014 advocating on behalf of the president or offering the unvarnished reality that&#8217;s, to not lie, to not obfuscate to the American folks,\u201d the reporter queried.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI decide to telling the reality from this podium each single day I decide to talking on behalf of the president of america. That&#8217;s my job,\u201d Leavitt replied.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I&#8217;ll say it\u2019s very straightforward to talk reality from this podium when you&#8217;ve a president who&#8217;s implementing insurance policies which are wildly in style with the American folks.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-karoline-leavitt-turns-question-about-lies-back-on-reporter\">Karoline Leavitt Turns Query About Lies Again On Reporter<\/h2>\n<p>Issues acquired even higher when press secretary Karoline Leavitt flipped the query solely again on the room of reporters, which, by the way, was packed. Presumably, as a result of the media has to faux to be doing their jobs once more now that Trump is within the White Home.<\/p>\n<p>Trip is over, youngsters.<\/p>\n<p>Leavitt proceeds to elucidate that a part of giving the reality to the American folks is correcting the lies of the earlier administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd that\u2019s precisely what this administration is doing. It\u2019s correcting the lies and the wrongs of the previous 4 years \u2014 most of the lies which have been instructed to your faces on this very briefing room,\u201d she stated. \u201cI cannot try this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then got here the dying blow to legacy media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever because you introduced up reality, I wish to level out whereas I vow to supply the reality from this podium, we ask that every one of you on this room maintain yourselves to that very same customary,\u201d Leavitt fired again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all know for a reality there have been lies which have been pushed by many legacy media retailers on this nation about this president, about his household. And we is not going to settle for that,\u201d she insisted. \u201cWe are going to name you out once we really feel that your reporting is mistaken or there may be misinformation about this White Home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, sure, I&#8217;ll maintain myself to the reality and I count on everybody on this room to do the identical.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">AP Reporter: How can we be assured you\u2019re not gonna lie?<\/p>\n<p>Press Secretary: Really it\u2019s the MSM such as you who&#8217;ve been mendacity for years<\/p>\n<p>BOOM <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ulCPeFk9iu\">pic.twitter.com\/ulCPeFk9iu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/libsoftiktok\/status\/1884310920501084598?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 28, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/president-trump-unleashes-a-flurry-of-promised-executive-orders\/\">Promises Made, Promises Kept: Most Important Executive Orders Signed By Trump on Day One<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-not-the-only-shot-at-the-press\">Not The Solely Shot At The Press<\/h2>\n<p>Holding reporters accountable wasn\u2019t the one dangerous information for mainstream media to return out of Karoline Leavitt\u2019s first briefing. She additionally acknowledged how \u201cnew media\u201d is leaving previous media within the mud.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re additionally opening up this briefing room to new media voices who produce news-related content material and whose outlet will not be already represented by one of many seats on this room,\u201d she declared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeginning right now, this seat within the entrance of the room, which is normally occupied by the press secretary\u2019s employees, might be known as the New Media Seat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Previous media is being phased out. Leavitt hinted at such actions earlier this month when she <a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/rusty-weiss\/2025\/01\/01\/incoming-trump-presssec-has-some-bad-news-for-mainstream-media-journalists-hoping-to-get-access-n2183810\">explained press credentials<\/a> to the president\u2019s Briefing Room could be handed out to podcasters and social media influencers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf this election proved something, it proved that the American individuals are now not listening to the mainstream bias, anti-Trump legacy media,\u201d Leavitt defined.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tpd-read-more-container callout\"><a class=\"tpd-read-more-image\" aria-label=\"Al Sharpton Organizes a \u2018Buy-cott\u2019 To Support Costco\u2019s Commitment To DEI \u2013 And It Immediately Backfired\" href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/al-sharpton-organizes-a-buy-cott-to-support-costcos-commitment-to-dei\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=428,height=241,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Al-Sharpton.jpg\" alt=\"Al Sharpton Organizes a \u2018Buy-cott\u2019 To Support Costco\u2019s Commitment To DEI \u2013 And It Immediately Backfired\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/white-house-press-secretary-karoline-leavitt-expertly-turns-reporters\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit score: Screenshot through PBS NewsHour Donald Trump\u2019s White Home press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, held her debut press convention with reporters on Tuesday. It was a breath of contemporary air following 4 years of binders, circling again, outrageous falsehoods, and basic incompetence. 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