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Karoline Leavitt Tore the Legacy Media a New One After Politico Ran Wildly Misleading Headline About Trump Speech

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Karoline Leavitt Tore the Legacy Media a New One After Politico Ran Wildly Misleading Headline About Trump Speech

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has a view of the Washington press corps most Americans never will — and she clearly doesn’t like what she sees.

A year into President Donald Trump’s second administration, Leavitt has fired enough broadsides to establish a reputation for not suffering gladly the fools of the establishment media.

And the day after Trump delivered his primetime speech to the nation about military operations against Iraq, Leavitt was firing again.

The target this time was Politico, the inside-the-Beltway bible with a painfully obvious anti-Trump tilt.

Specifically, Leavitt was aiming at Politico’s preview of Trump’s speech, an article that relied on six unnamed sources and the tenuously informed opinion of one named source: Steve Bannon, a man with no official presence in Trump’s White House at all.

The article even used a quote from Bannon — “I came, I saw, I conquered” — as its main headline:

“‘I came, I saw, I conquered:’ Trump set to claim victory in Iran at primetime address”

The placement of the quoted words, followed by the word “Trump” are obviously deliberate to convey the impression that the quote is from Trump himself. It’s wildly misleading, it’s ethically garbage, and it’s not in the least surprising when it comes to how the establishment media covers the Trump White House.

The article confidently predicted Trump’s message would be one of victory (the strong implication that Trump would be simply looking for a way out of the military........

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