KELLER: Trump Administration Press Briefing Minds of 2017 Confusion

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Boston – “President Trump is back, and America’s golden age has certainly begun,” declared press secretary in the White House Karoline Leavitt as she kicked her first press release.

Leavitt has New Hampshire tape

If she looks familiar, it’s because she lost a bid for the Congress in New Hampshire in 2022 and was a very visible spokesman for the Trump campaign last year. And with former Senator Scott Brown, who urged her to “give them hell”, Leavitt made it clear that she intends to continue the president’s long -term fight against the news media; At least those who dare have to challenge his spin.

“We know that there have been lies that have been pushed by many older media in this country about this president,” she said during the briefing.

Plays guilt games

But it didn’t take long for Leavitt to play loose with the truth about the current explosion of egg prices.

“The Biden administration and the Department of Agriculture directed mass murder of 100 million chickens, which has led to a lack of chicken supply in this country, (and) therefore a lack of egg supply,” she said.

In fact, a bird flu outbreak that caused the chicken to go according to a federal policy adopted in 2017 – in Trump’s first period.

Confusion at freeze in the white house

And during a barrier of questions about the sudden freeze in the White House on aid programs, Leavitt first insisted concern about programs such as Medicaid, who pay the health care bills for low -income people, was another case of media mission. “There is only uncertainty in this space among the media; there is no uncertainty in this building,” she said.

But it turned out not to be true.

When asked by a reporter, if she “guaranteed here that no person now at Medicaid will see a cutoff because of the policy,” Leavitt paused and then said, “I will check back on it and get back to you.”

The White House eventually clarified that Medicaid controls will not be delayed, but the confusion is reminiscent of the chaos at airports when Trump started his first period with a travel ban on arrival from Muslim countries. And the scene on the podium was also known: a presidential mouthpiece that tried to put a favorable spin on everything and put a fork in any criticism.

Leavitt mostly handled herself well. But it is never a good look when the government accuses the media of confusion it created.