Kellyanne Conway on Karoline Leavitt
Karoline Leavitt is leaving the press secretary desk and moving into an outside advisor role. Kellyanne Conway, in the briefing room, says Leavitt "will go down as one of the best White House press secretaries", and that she'll keep helping MAGA win from the outside. #KarolineLeavitt #Politics
Transcript (en)
respect, Caroline. Jackie, you put it perfectly. She will go down as one of the best White House press secretaries, definitely for her work behind the podium, but her work behind the scenes that the public doesn't always see. You know, it's a very small percentage of the press secretary's job to go in front of that podium and address the nation on behalf of the president of the United States. The rest of the time you're fielding questions, you're batting down rumors, you're making sure that you're speaking on behalf of the president with competence and confidence. That means you're talking to a very large cabinet and senior officials, all of whom have very big personalities and big portfolios of their own. I think with the president's truth social post could not have been more gracious and more loyal and more lovely about Caroline's tenure and what she means to him, even in going forward. He made very clear, and we know, Martha, this is not always the case with people departing the Trump White House. He made very clear that she is still in his orbit. She's an incredibly effective team player, part of his inner circle, and that she's going to help with these midterms where other people have left the White House, like James Blair, his political guru. Jason Miller, Johnny DeStefano are helping, too. These outside advisors are trying to defy political gravity. We all respect Caroline so much as a press secretary, as a president.
