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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(134,738 posts)
Wed Mar 4, 2026, 08:23 PM 12 hrs ago

Leavitt scolds CNN star Collins in tense exchange over US deaths from Iran war: 'Listen to me, especially you!'

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt unloaded on CNN’s Kaitlan Collins for asking about the administration’s position on media coverage of U.S. soldiers killed in the conflict raging in Iran and across the Middle East.

At a briefing Wednesday, CNN’s chief White House correspondent asked Leavitt about a comment Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made at an earlier Pentagon press conference, where he complained that the “fake news” was reporting on the deaths of the fallen service members to make President Donald Trump “look bad.”

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“Is it the position of this administration that the press should not prominently cover the deaths of U.S. service members?” Collins asked Leavitt.

“No,” Leavitt answered. “It's the position of this administration that the press in this room and the press across the country should accurately report on the success of Operation Epic Fury and the damage it is doing to the rogue Iranian regime that has threatened the lives of every single American in this room.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/listen-especially-leavitt-scolds-cnn-204517105.html

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Leavitt scolds CNN star Collins in tense exchange over US deaths from Iran war: 'Listen to me, especially you!' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 12 hrs ago OP
This message was self-deleted by its author wcmagumba 12 hrs ago #1
Lying mother fucking piece of crap. Botany 12 hrs ago #2
This is such bullshit. Initech 11 hrs ago #7
I wish Leavitt could be dropped off JBTaurus83 12 hrs ago #3
Lyin' Lipps Leavitt... 2naSalit 12 hrs ago #4
Who benefits from these little, predictable spats? IcyPeas 11 hrs ago #5
Hey Leavitt, go fuck yourself and your shitty president. Initech 11 hrs ago #6
We are the rogue nation choie 10 hrs ago #8
Someone should ask her to explain how this illegal war 'is Christian'..... Jack Valentino 9 hrs ago #9

Response to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Botany

(77,031 posts)
2. Lying mother fucking piece of crap.
Wed Mar 4, 2026, 08:32 PM
12 hrs ago

“No Levaitt answered. “It's the position of this administration that the press in this room and the press across the country should accurately report on the success of Operation Epic Fury and the damage it is doing to the rogue Iranian regime that has threatened the lives of every single American in this room.”

Please St. Karoline of the cross tell him how the Iranians were a threat to reporters in Washington D.C.?

Initech

(108,437 posts)
7. This is such bullshit.
Wed Mar 4, 2026, 09:53 PM
11 hrs ago

They don't care about doing the right thing for the country. They care about protecting the absolute worst president in history. Yes he looks bad. Yes, he and they are going to prison, they need to deal with it.

IcyPeas

(25,321 posts)
5. Who benefits from these little, predictable spats?
Wed Mar 4, 2026, 09:48 PM
11 hrs ago

CNN? Collins? Leavitt? Trump?

Both?

Neither?


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