Speaker 1: Well, it's just another ordinary Thursday, and Caroline Levitt, well
she's back with just another disaster press conference that just
took place, continuing to literally lie on behalf of Trump
and spread insane lies ranging from the reason behind Trump's
bandages on his hand to sharing false economic data. Welcome
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stupidity on the other side. Now, today Caroline seemed to
have well, let's just say a bit of Trump's short
temper rage. A reporter asked her about the bandages on
Trump's hands. Her response, well, let's just say it was
a bit outlandish. Play the clip in.
Speaker 2: The blue, Yes, go ahead, thank you. The President's being
spotted at in about a number of times with bandages
on his hands. Could you please explain what that is about.
Speaker 3: Secondly, he nodded on truth Social the other day that
he had a three cognitive tests.
Speaker 2: Could you please clownify when those tests took place. I
can do that at a later date. I obviously don't
have that in front of me. The President has spoken
about that quite extensively throughout the years. As for the
bandages on the hand, we've also given you an explanation
for that in the past. The President is literally constantly
shaking hands. The Oval Office is like Grand Central Terminal.
He is meeting with more people than any of you
even know about on a daily basis. He's also on
a daily aspirin regimen, which is something his physical examinations
has said in the past as well, which can contribute
to that bruising that you see here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's not bruising that they're talking about. It's
the bandages. And let me be crystal clear, I am
happen to be one who is also on an aspin
regiment and I do not suffer that type of bruising,
nor do I have bandages on my hands. There's something
much more significant going on that they just clearly don't
want to talk about now. Caitlin Collins approached Caroline quite
strongly about the economy. She tried to ask Caroline about
the rising grocery costs but instead Caroline claimed that inflation
was down. Not the question, but at least it's an answer.
Play the clip a year.
Speaker 2: Ago, as you know, and grocery prices have been up.
So we've covered the economy, but there's mixed signals in
terms of what that looks like. But iniflation is down
from where it was as measured by the overall CPI,
it has slowed to an average two point five percent phase.
This is down from what the president inherited, and to
the president inherited two point nine percent in January. Today
it's at about two point five percent, So we're trending
in the right direction with more to comm and I
would remind you when President Trump left office in his
first term, inflation was one point seven percent and the
previous administration jacked it up to a record high nine.
So again, in ten months, the President has caught us
out of this hole. He's kept it low at two
point five percent, and we believe that number is going
to continue to decline, especially as energy and oil prices
continue to decline as well. It wasn't hid, they're just
saying it's not well. Nobody reported on it being high.
Under my predecessor was standing at this podium. But now
you want to ask me a lot of questions about it,
which I'm happy to answer, but I will just add
there's a lot more scrutiny on this issue from this
press core than there was well in the previous administration
said that too. My predecessor stood up at this podium
and she said inflation doesn't exist. She said the border
was secure, and people like you just took her at
her word. And now those were two utter lies. Everything
I'm telling you is the truth, backed by real factual data,
and you just don't want to report on it because
you want to push untrue narratives about the president.
Speaker 1: Yeah again, I mean thou dost protest too much? Maybe
the right adage for Caroline machine gun lips love it?
Who actually is capable of spitting out more faster than
in AR fifteen? Now, mind you another reporter of fact check, Caroline, Oh,
this didn't go well?
Speaker 3: Play the clip first, very quickly, clarifying Caitlyn's question, you
acknowledged that CPI in January when you took office, was
three percent, and in September, the last month for which
we had data, it was also three percent. So inflation
no it's two point five percent, not in September, except
two point.
Speaker 2: Five percent the average CPI right now. I have it
in front of me in President Trump's first eight months.
Speaker 1: And yeah, again doesn't make a difference. What she has
in front the CPI is something that people actually are
able to trend and follow. Didn't care for it. But Caroline, well,
let's go on and agree that she wasn't too happy,
proceeded to attack CNN and Caitlyn Collins specifically play the clip.
Speaker 4: Is on the Netflix War Brothers deal. The President did
address this also yesterday. He said that he believes that
the sale of c should be attached to that deal
with Netflix or with the paramount if that happens down
or down. Can you just explain what the President's plan
to do going forward? Can you make that case similar
to what.
Speaker 2: He made yesterday? Well, I think the president's comments yesterday
about the sale of CNN and new leadership is evidenced
by my exchange with the CNN reporter in this room.
Their viewership has gone down, their ratings has declined, and
I think the President rightfully believes that network would benefit
from new ownership. With respect to this deal, he has
great respect for both companies who are bidding against one another.
And I won't weigh in any further than that.
Speaker 1: What's amazing. What's amazing there is the fact that you're
talking about the President of the United States getting himself
involved in a private transaction of two publicly traded companies. One,
by the way, his son in law happens to be
one of the bidders, alongside a conglamorate of Middle Eastern
backed money. Which side do you think the guy really wants?
Well Collins, She continued, asking why Trump is actually out
there telling parents, well, for the holidays, just give you
kids fewer gifts. Play the clip.
Speaker 2: If the economy is as strong as the President has
said it is, then why is he telling parents two
weeks before Christmas that they should only buy two or
three dollars for their children. Look, what the President is
saying is that if we want products made right here
in America, if we want them to be made from
American small businesses, which is a large part of the
reason the President has effectively implemented tariffs, then we're going
to have better quality products right here in the United States.
Maybe you'll pay a dollar or two more, but you
will get better quality, and you'll be supporting your fellow
Americans by buying American And that's what the president was saying.
Speaker 1: Again, No, that's actually not what he's saying. He's saying
that affordability would be easier if you bought your kids less,
meaning that the United States imports in so much cheap
good from China and elsewhere that we can't afford. It's
not a dollar or two, it's more like one hundred
percent more. It's not even a comparison. A Barbie doll
that you pay eighteen dollars for would cost fifty dollars
if manufactured in America. That's just plain and simple. Now.
In response, another reporter asked Caroline about Trump's wealth play
the clip.
Speaker 2: The president's a billionaire.
Speaker 5: He's probably the wealthiest person to ever serve as president.
Speaker 4: Isn't a good look for him to be telling parents, oh,
you should only buy you two or three dollars for
your kids, when.
Speaker 2: He's one of the wealthiest people in the country or
in the gut Do you think the people in that
room in Pennsylvania who the President was speaking to don't
know the president's a billionaire. I think that's a very
well established fact. And actually I think it's one of
the many reasons they re elected him back to this office,
because he's a businessman who understands the economy and knows
how to fix it, and he's doing it right now,
just like he did in his first turn.
Speaker 1: Again, you can't get an answer from her. There's no
response that justifies the statement, because it was said stupidly
in response to affordability. And no matter how many times,
by the way, if the point is that you're a billionaire,
therefore you should run the country, that that's why people
voted you in and so on. There are quite a
few on the Forbes list that are higher rank than
even Trump. So I guess maybe we're going to only
see now presidents who have billionaire status. Nobody asked her
that follow up question. Why not? Well, Peter Deucy, good Guy,
took the offense for questions regarding Venezuela. Deucey asked if
the DoD's presidence was about drugs or about oil. Play
the clip here.
Speaker 6: Tak care lyon based on way that things stand right now,
is Operation Southern Sphere about drugs or is it about oil?
Speaker 2: What I will tell you, Peter, is that the Trump
administration is focused on doing many things in the Western hemisphere.
The President has taken a new approach that has not
been taken by any administration for quite some time, to
actually focus on what's going on in our own backyard.
And there are two things that are very important to
this administration. Number one, stopping the flow of illegal drugs
into the United States of America, which we know has
killed hundreds of thousands of Americans. The President promised on
the campaign trill that he would demolish the foreign terrorist
organizations in drug cartels around the world, especially right here
in our own hemisphere. And you have seen that he
is delivering on that promise. With respect to the oil.
In what happened yesterday, the Department of Justice requested and
was approved for a warrant to seize a vessel because
it's a sanctioned shadow vessel known for Carrie black market
sanctioned oil to the IRGC, which you know is a
sanctioned entity. So the President is committed to stopping the
illegal flow of drugs into our country. He's also fully
committed to effectuating this administration's sanctioned policy. And that's what
you saw in the world saw take place yesterday, and
know what we.
Speaker 1: Saw was piracy in international water. There's actually still no
data to demonstrate that what she just said is actually true. Now,
do see what's in stopping there? He continued by asking
how the seizure of oil helps American affordability.
Speaker 6: Play the clip, because he said, the President is trying
to do a lot of things at once.
Speaker 2: He talks a lot about how.
Speaker 6: He thinks the way to bring down prices for everything
would need to bring down the cost of energy. Would
he use this seized Venezuelan oil to try to help
Americans with affordability here in.
Speaker 2: The United States? Well, what I can tell you right now,
the vessel has been teased, as you know, and the
Department of Justice is did that in conjunction with the
Coast Guard in the Department of War. The vessel is
currently undergoing a forfeitter process right now, the United.
Speaker 1: States going for forfeitter. Imagine, I mean, this is piracy.
There's no other way to describe it. But another reporter
then go and goes on and asks Caroline about today's
order that requires the release of Abrego Garcia. Play that clip, Joey, Yeah,
thanks Carolina.
Speaker 5: A federal judge today ordered the immediate release of Kilmore
Abrego Garcia from ICE attention does that? Does the White
House of responsive to that, and does the administration plan
to appeal that decision?
Speaker 2: Absolutely? The White House the Administration opposed this activism from
a judge who is really acting as a judicial activist,
which we've unfortunately seen in many cases across the country.
Abrego Garcia is present in our country illegally. He is
a preven human trafficker. He is a proven gang member.
The administration has evidence of that, and as you saw
from the Department of Homeland Security, they issued a statement
saying they'll continue to fight this legal battle in court.
Speaker 1: Katelyn, you know, the interesting thing is how many people
have asked to see the proof that she keeps referring to.
You see as they always say, you know, you know,
you know that it's been proven. Well, no, if you
show me the documentation and I can verify it, then
maybe I'll agree. But in the meantime, none of that
is proven. In fact, he and his family all stated
it's an absolute lie. Now, healthcare, it's another major topic
right now for the GOP and Caroline Well, she had
the perfect spin play the clip.
Speaker 2: They created the problem the President and Republicans are currently
coming up with creative solutions and ideas to lower health
care costs for the American people, and you'll continue to
hear more from them on that or these subsidies expire.
I just said you're going to continue to hear more
from the President and re Publicans on this issue.
Speaker 1: I'm sure, sure, why is anybody showing up to these things?
You know, you ask a question about I don't know X,
and then you get an answer on a I mean,
it's like, what's the point to ask a question when
you know that the person who's standing up there representing
the President of the United States literally is going to
lie to you or avoid answering the question altogether, Just
a complete waste of time. And finally, Caroline is asked
why Trump is willing to allow China to have access
to American computer chips. Play the clip Phillips you.
Speaker 4: Caroline, Bobby's advanced at at age two hundred, jims.
Speaker 6: Why is the president willing to allow China to have
access to one of America's achieved technological advantages.
Speaker 2: Well, look, I will tell you just a couple of things.
The President put out his own statement on this, which
I do think highlights his exact thinking. What you see
from the President on true social is most of the
time what you hear from the President behind closed doors. Privately,
he told President she that we will Navidio will only
be shipping H two hundred products to approved customers in
China to allow under conditions that will allow for continued
strong national security. The administration continues to maintain a strict
export control regime, and we are ensuring that the Blackwell
chip and other advanced technologies stay right here in America
and these H two.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something, the second that the first
ship arrives in China, the reverse engineering the IP onto it,
they will know exactly how to manufacture exactly the blueprint
onto it. That's what China does. They steal intellectual property.
All they need is one. And you think makes a
difference who that they're going to sell it to, it
truly does not. And that's why I constantly say, we
need to grow this community. We need to put an
end to this stupidity. We need to stop listening to
people like Caroline Leavitt that spews nothing but lies day
in and day out effectively, but nevertheless, there's still lies
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