Karoline Leavitt Outs the White House Press Corpshttps://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/09/22/karoline-leavitt-outs-the-white-house-press-corps-n4957544Karoline Leavitt may go down as the best White House press secretary this country has ever had. Her exit last month stung, but now that she’s no longer behind the podium, she’s dishing about what happened behind the scenes, and what she revealed on Tuesday is a doozy.
Appearing on Sean Hannity's podcast, Leavitt pulled back the curtain on the briefing room and revealed how much of what happens during White House daily press briefings is just for show. According to Leavitt, reporters who hit her with loaded questions on camera would later come to her privately and apologize once the cameras stopped rolling.
“You name people that act one way when they're questioning you,” Hannity began. “They want their moment, right? They want their clip for the night so they get their time on the evening news.”
“Exactly,” Leavitt confirmed.
“And then off air they're totally different people. Do you find that a lot?”
“Yeah, that's true.”
“Would you say they're phony?” Hannity asked.
“Yeah, there's a performative aspect to the briefing room, in fairness, I think on both sides, right, but definitely with the press. And they have to do that because their bosses are demanding it. There's been times reporters have even said to me, ‘I'm sorry, I had to ask that today, you know, my bosses really wanted me to ask that.’ They know it's an unfair question, but they're not in control of their own livelihood. They are dictated by the editors and the execs at some of these companies.”
1. Much Hate-Trump crapola is at outlets' management orders.
2. "Reporters" operate within a deal-with-the-manglement-devil they don't/won't leave.
