Karoline Leavitt didn’t wait for the media to set the tone—she fired the first shot.
Before a single question was asked, she went straight after The Washington Post for what she called a dishonest and manipulative headline on the fentanyl crisis.
Their headline: “The mysterious drop in fentanyl seizures on the U.S.-Mexico border.”
Leavitt called it what it was: spin.
“How is this mysterious?” she asked.
“There is no mystery about why there is a decrease in fentanyl coming into the United States!”
She pointed directly to the administration’s border policies and cooperation with Mexico as the reason for the decline.
“This administration’s strong border policies are the reason there has been a decrease in fentanyl trafficking,” she said.
“His strengthened relationship with Mexican President Sheinbaum and all of the measures he has been taking to deter illegal human and drug trafficking at our United States southern border is the reason for plummeting fentanyl seizures at the U.S. Border.”
But the…
