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Trump Tells Us He Will Let Us Know in a Week or Two About Iran and Israel. In the Meantime Trust Karoline!

On the Brink of War and We Have To Trust Her? Trump’s Libeler.

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Joshua Powell
Jun 19, 2025
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The nation's capital has always been a place where truth goes to die, but Karoline Leavitt has turned the White House briefing room into its morgue.

At 27, she's the youngest press secretary in history, which is fitting since her relationship with facts appears to be stuck in adolescence. Like a teenager caught smoking wee, she doubles down on increasingly implausible stories banking on Visine and TicTacs to prop up her “truth.”

Standing at that podium, diamond cross glinting like a disco ball at a Baptist revival, Leavitt embodies everything wrong with our politics but remains the perfect Trump blonde—all “alternate facts” and righteous indignation, serving up lies with the confidence of a prosperity gospel preacher.

Her debut performance was a masterpiece but a better fit or SNL 50 than 1600. Fifty million dollars for condoms in Gaza? It was such a spectacular whopper that even hardened Washington fact-checkers had to pick their jaws up off the floor. But Leavitt delivered it with the …

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