White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Challenges CNN to Report Portland Riots
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt reminded CNN’s Kaitlan Collins that, as a reporter, it was her job to get to the bottom of things rather than to simply accept whatever party line came from the people in power…
“I would encourage you, as a reporter, to go on the ground and to take a look for yourself, because there’s been many members of the press — not the press in this room but independent journalists — some of whom we’ll be inviting to the White House very soon to share their stories… You’re probably talking to partisan Democrat officials who are opposed to everything this president does.”
That was the sound of a narrative shattering in the White House briefing room. The words came from Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, aimed directly at CNN’s Kaitlan Collins. It was the kind of direct, unapologetic truth-telling you rarely see inside the DC bubble, a moment that perfectly captured the battle between an administration working to restore order and a media determined to protect politically convenient chaos.
Let’s be perfectly clear about what’s happening in Portland while reporters like Collins ask softball questions from the safety of a podium. For weeks, a mob of professional agitators has laid siege to a federal ICE facility. These aren’t your cousin’s peaceful protesters with cardboard signs; they are black-clad anarchists causing “mayhem and havoc.”
While Collins took the word of a local official, real reporters were documenting the truth. Independent journalist Katie Daviscourt was even assaulted by an Antifa thug, earning a black eye for doing the job the legacy media refuses to do. This is the ugly reality the Trump administration wants to end, and it’s the very thing CNN and their ilk are desperate to sanitize for their audience.
“I would encourage you, as a reporter, to go on the ground and to take a look for yourself, because there’s been many members of the press — not the press in this room but independent journalists — some of whom we’ll be inviting to the White House very soon to share their stories… You’re probably talking to partisan Democrat officials who are opposed to everything this president does.”
That was the sound of a narrative shattering in the White House briefing room. The words came from Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, aimed directly at CNN’s Kaitlan Collins. It was the kind of direct, unapologetic truth-telling you rarely see inside the DC bubble, a moment that perfectly captured the battle between an administration working to restore order and a media determined to protect politically convenient chaos.
Let’s be perfectly clear about what’s happening in Portland while reporters like Collins ask softball questions from the safety of a podium. For weeks, a mob of professional agitators has laid siege to a federal ICE facility. These aren’t your cousin’s peaceful protesters with cardboard signs; they are black-clad anarchists causing “mayhem and havoc.”
While Collins took the word of a local official, real reporters were documenting the truth. Independent journalist Katie Daviscourt was even assaulted by an Antifa thug, earning a black eye for doing the job the legacy media refuses to do. This is the ugly reality the Trump administration wants to end, and it’s the very thing CNN and their ilk are desperate to sanitize for their audience.
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