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, everyone.

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 particular person to carry the job.

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

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

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LEAVITT: The Democrat Celebration has turn out to be the occasion 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 a whole lot of credibility at the beginning when he picked up his boss’s line in regards to the crowd at his inauguration.

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SEAN SPICER: This was the most important 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 out to be 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 just a few tense moments.

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LEAVITT: So that you’re asking a hypothetical primarily based on applications that you could’t even establish.

UNIDENTIFIED JOURNALIST: Effectively, I simply recognized it.

LEAVITT: What I can let you know…

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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