From Daily Mail: White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt lost her cool with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins as she was grilled over US troops killed in Donald Trump’s war with Iran.
Collins pressed Leavitt at Wednesday’s White House briefing over comments by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who blasted media outlets for highlighting the deaths of six US service members killed in an Iranian drone strike in Kuwait.
Collins asked whether the administration believes the press should avoid prominently covering the deaths of troops in Trump’s war in the Middle East.
Leavitt lashed back, “That’s not what the secretary said, Kaitlan…and you know it.”
“You and your network know that you take every single thing this administration says and try to use it to make the president look bad,” she added.
Collins replied, “I don’t think covering troop deaths is trying to make the president look bad.”
“If you’re trying to argue right now that CNN’s overwhelming coverage is not negative of President Trump, I think the American people would tend to disagree, and your ratings would tend to disagree with that as well,” Leavitt said.
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