Karoline Leavitt Just Totally Undermined Trump’s ‘I Didn’t Do It’ Claim | EUROtoday

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s daring declare concerning President Donald Trump’s social media posts is elevating new questions on a racist video featured on his account earlier this month.

On Wednesday, Leavitt was requested a couple of publish on Trump’s Truth Social account that criticized Britain’s plan to show over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius whereas additionally securing a 99-year lease to maintain a joint U.Ok.–U.S. army base on Diego Garcia.

“The post should be taken as the policy of the Trump administration,” she stated. “It’s coming straight from the horse’s mouth. When you see it on Truth Social, you know it’s directly from President Trump.”

Leavitt known as that the “beauty” of Trump’s presidency and an indication of his “transparency.”

Just one downside: Her assertion conflicts with Trump’s declare a couple of racist video featured on his Truth Social account earlier this month that depicted former President Barack Obama and former first woman Michelle Obama as a chimpanzee and a gorilla. The video was denounced by Democrats and Republicans alike, and Trump later deleted it. But he additionally by no means apologized, claiming it wasn’t his fault.

“I didn’t do it, by the way,” Trump informed reporters whereas aboard Air Force One on Feb. 6. “This was done by somebody else.”

Trump stated he had seen a part of the video, which he claimed was about “fraudulent elections,” after which handed it on with out seeing the racist half.

“I guess probably nobody reviewed the end of it,” he stated. “Somebody slipped and missed a very small part.”

Trump’s critics famous the evident inconsistency and fired again on X: