Karoline Leavitt, youngest-ever White House press secretary, holds first briefing : NPR

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

The brand new White Home press secretary took half in a long-standing White Home ritual yesterday.

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KAROLINE LEAVITT: Good afternoon, all people.

UNIDENTIFIED CROWD: Good afternoon.

LEAVITT: It is an honor to be right here with all of you.

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST:

Karoline Leavitt performed her first briefing as White Home press secretary. She is 27, the youngest individual to carry the job.

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LEAVITT: Whereas I vow to offer the reality from this podium, we ask that every one of you on this room maintain yourselves to that very same normal. And we are going to name you out after we really feel that your reporting is mistaken or there may be misinformation about this White Home.

INSKEEP: Now, Karoline Leavitt labored her method up from White Home intern to assistant press secretary in President Trump’s first time period and was a well-recognized voice through the 2024 presidential marketing campaign. Right here she is on Fox Information.

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LEAVITT: The Democrat Celebration has turn into the get together of elitists who look down on the on a regular basis working man and girl on this nation.

MARTIN: Throughout his earlier time period, President Trump had 4 press secretaries. Sean Spicer misplaced loads of credibility initially when he picked up his boss’s line concerning the crowd at his inauguration.

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SEAN SPICER: This was the biggest viewers to ever witness an inauguration, interval.

MARTIN: One other press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, dealt with the briefings extra easily. She went on to turn into governor of Arkansas.

INSKEEP: Then there was Stephanie Grisham, who did not give formal briefings in any respect. She turned a Trump critic after the assault on the Capitol in 2021. Karoline Leavitt’s inaugural briefing had a number of tense moments.

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LEAVITT: So that you’re asking a hypothetical primarily based on packages which you can’t even determine.

UNIDENTIFIED JOURNALIST: Effectively, I simply recognized it.

LEAVITT: What I can inform you…

INSKEEP: And ended with a promise from Leavitt to reporters that they are going to be seeing much more of her.

MARTIN: Karoline Leavitt, the White Home’s latest and youngest press secretary.

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