At 27, Karoline Leavitt is the youngest White Home press secretary since disgraced former President Richard Nixon picked 29-year-old Ronald Ziegler for a similar place in 1969 (and the parallels will not be misplaced on us).
Leavitt hit the MAGA-atmosphere throughout the first Trump administration, the place she labored as an assistant press secretary earlier than leaving to turn out to be New York Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik’s communications director.
Within the wake of the Jan. 6 rebel, Leavitt made two social media posts that she has since erased: one which known as the officer who tricked insurrectionists into going the improper method, “A hero,” and one other describing the rebel as, “a dark day in the history of the United States Capitol.”
Like her earlier boss Stefanik, Leavitt has been keen to debase herself and faux any pretense of a conviction she may need had about justice and our structure was no match for a place in President Donald Trump’s orbit.
A couple of months after Jan. 6, she was totally on board and selling debunked election fraud claims on social media.
In 2022, she ran unsuccessfully for a congressional seat within the First District of New Hampshire earlier than folding herself again into Trump’s 2024 marketing campaign for president.
Within the run-up to the election, Leavitt confirmed an nearly unhinged means to spin for Trump, unabashedly calling the Trump marketing campaign “disciplined” after each disastrous press convention Trump gave.
In August, she denied that Trump’s marketing campaign had any connections to Challenge 2025. Right here she is featured in a Challenge 2025 coaching video “The Art of Professionalism.”
Whereas Trump and others repeatedly promoted lies in regards to the federal response to Hurricane Helene in North Carolina and elsewhere in 2024, Leavitt confirmed the sort of shamelessness Trump needs in a mouthpiece. Throughout an look on CNN, Leavitt’s lies and incapacity to reply easy fact-checking questions ended with the interview being minimize quick.
Because the election, and Trump’s announcement that Leavitt could be the following White Home press secretary, Leavitt has continued her monomaniacal vigilance to create another actuality for her narcissist in chief. After Trump pardoned greater than 1,500 Jan. 6 insurrectionists, together with seditious conspirators, Leavitt tried to downplay the detrimental response.
“I don’t think it’s causing much controversy,” she advised Fox Information. “President Trump is restoring faith in our justice system,” she added.
A current investigation from NOTUS exhibits that a couple of week in the past, Leavitt “amended” marketing campaign filings from her failed 2022 congressional run. It reportedly exhibits that she didn’t disclose, for years, at the very least $200,000 in “inappropriate donations.” It additionally exhibits that she nonetheless owes greater than $300,000 in unpaid money owed. Solely one of the best conartists folks.
Leavitt will now be part of the ranks of different Trump press secretaries. That clowncar consists of waste-of-space Sean Spicer, fancy-podium-hoarder Sarah Huckabee Sanders, afraid-of-the-press Stephanie Grisham, and world’s-worst-prognosticator Kayleigh McEnany.
Leavitt appears an ideal match for Trump, as her first press convention Tuesday will undoubtedly present:
