Karoline Levitt ditches spiritual necklace after Jon Stewart’s brutal joke: ‘Some sort of weird Pinocchio cross’ | EUROtoday

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was seen with out her cross necklace following the mockery of Daily Show host Jon Stewart.

Leavitt appeared for her briefing on Tuesday in a navy blazer, however she had chosen to forego her signature jewellery.

On Monday evening, Stewart skewered Leavitt, saying, “By the way, I think that the more she lies, the bigger her cross gets. Is that possible? It’s like some sort of weird Pinocchio cross.”

The host additionally famous that Leavitt is more likely to be “the only one” who will be capable to depart the administration “unscathed … Because I don’t think that she has any principles in there left to die.”

Stewart went on to say he’s “not even upset with this lady. Because just rolling with the punches is clearly the only strategy for happiness when you’re working for Trump.”

“Trump’s very open secret has all the time been: He doesn’t consider in or care about any coverage situation in any respect. He desires consideration, he desires his ego stroked, and he desires cash. He desires f***wads and f***wads of cash,” he added.

Leavitt, 27, instructed the Christian Broadcasting Network earlier this yr that “My religion is extremely necessary to me, I might argue, now greater than ever, being in a task that may be very demanding and at occasions controversial, and there is a variety of public stress and dialogue on-line about who you might be and your loved ones.”

She added that “it could be difficult for someone who doesn’t have faith, but with faith, all things are possible.”

Leavitt confronted criticism in April for her feedback about Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador earlier this yr.

She tried to attach Garcia to the 2023 rape and homicide of a Maryland lady, whose killer was convicted that very same month.

“He will never live in the United States again,” Leavitt mentioned of Garcia.

“She gets up there, and, with a cross around her neck, she lies. She violates the ninth commandment about not bearing false witness,” Andy Levy mentioned on The New Abnormal podcast. “She sits up there and says over and over again that Garcia was a member of the MS 13 gang. She takes it a step further, and she says that this was a finding of an immigration court. It absolutely was not.”