Karoline Leavitt, the outgoing White House press secretary, is the embodiment of a presidency unleashed, with little regard for truth or transparency.
Reporters expect press secretaries to put the best possible gloss on an administration’s policies. But they’re also supposed to provide information that helps reporters accurately explain what the White House is doing.
Over three decades working in Washington, I have dealt with 20 White House press secretaries, from Dee Dee Myers, the first woman to hold the job, to Leavitt, the youngest person to hold the job and Trump’s fifth press secretary as president.
Under Trump, the role of the White House press secretary has been diminished almost to the point of meaninglessness, I wrote in an article for MS NOW. Please follow this link to read my analysis.
Ah, the good-old "condoms for Hamas" days ... and things only got worse from there.
Orwell’s ministry of truth brought to life.