White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt was roasted by social media users for her defense of President Donald Trump’s insults toward major news outlets over the U.S. strikes on Iran.
Trump has been railing against media outlets for reporting that the U.S. strikes on Iran only set the country’s nuclear program behind by a few months. The intel assessment, first reported by CNN, showed that the nuclear sites were not “obliterated,” like what Trump claimed them to be.
In heated remarks on Wednesday, Leavitt loudly argued on Fox News that CNN’s reporting was inaccurate despite many news outlets finding the same conclusion. Trump spent much of the NATO summit railing against media organizations, including CNN, for reporting that the nuclear sites were not completely destroyed.
“No other president in history could have ever dreamed of such a success, and that’s exactly why the fake news media is now trying to demean and undermine the president, and we’ve seen this playbook be run before you have hostile actors within the intelligence community who lick— who illegally leak bits and pieces of an intelligence assessment to push a fake news narrative, and that’s what the CNN story was yesterday," Leavitt told Fox News.
“The American public are smarter than this, and they should know the truth. President Trump completely and totally obliterated the capability of Iran to produce a nuclear weapon, and the world is safer today because of his historic efforts,” she added.
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