Karoline Leavitt labels reporter a ‘hack’ as she blows up over questions on ICE and Trump’s election threats | EUROtoday

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt refused to reply how Immigration and Customs Enforcement underneath Donald Trump’s administration is doing “everything correctly” after the killing of Renee Good and the deaths of 32 folks in ICE custody in 2025, the company’s deadliest 12 months in 20 years.

Instead, she lashed out on the reporter who requested the query, labeled him a “left-wing hack” who’s “pretending” to be a journalist, and “shamed” reporters within the room for what she referred to as “crooked” views.

Niall Stanage, a White House columnist for The Hill, famous that administration officers like Homeland Security Kristi Noem have insisted that federal companies are doing “everything correctly” relating to immigration enforcement following a 12 months marked by in-custody deaths, the arrests of dozens of U.S. residents, and the deadly taking pictures of Renee Good.

“How does that equate to them doing everything correctly?” Stanage requested.

“Why was Renee Good unfortunately and tragically killed?” Leavitt replied.

“You’re asking me, my opinion?” he stated. “Because an ICE agent acted recklessly and killed her unjustifiably.”

Leavitt — regardless of asking for the columnist’s opinion shared by a majority of voters who consider her killing was unjustified — instantly laid into him in a exceptional streak of insults.

“Oh, OK, so you’re a biased reporter with a left-wing opinion, because you’re a left-wing hack, you’re not a reporter, you’re posing in this room as a journalist, and it’s so clear by the premise of your question,” Leavitt stated.

“And you, and the people in the media — who have such biases, but fake like you’re a journalist — you shouldn’t even be siting in that seat,” she added. “But you’re pretending you’re a journalist and you’re a left-wing activist.”

She stated he “should be reporting on the facts” and “all of the innocent Americans who are killed by illegal aliens in this country.”

“And the brave men and women of ICE are doing everything in their power to remove those heinous individuals and make our country safer,” she stated. “Shame on you people in the media who have a crooked view, a biased view, and pretend you’re an honest journalist.”

Leavitt additionally dismissed a query from The Independent asking why the president would joke about canceling elections after telling Reuters “we shouldn’t even have” midterms this 12 months.

In a 30-minute interview with Reuters revealed Thursday, Trump stated he had completed a lot in workplace that “when you think of it, we shouldn’t even have an election” in 2026.

The president — brazenly fearful {that a} Congress managed by Democrats might derail his agenda — has beforehand warned Republicans that he expects to be impeached if Democrats retake management of Congress in fall elections, and voting rights advocates and election legislation students have feared that the president is making ready to disrupt them.

Leavitt stated the president was “joking.”

When pressed by The Independent’s Andrew Feinberg, Leavitt rapidly moved on.

“You said he was joking about canceling the elections, but Americans for generations have fought and died for democracy, for this democracy,” he requested. “Are you saying that the president finds the idea of canceling elections funny?”

“Andrew, were you in the room? No, you weren’t. I was in the room,” she stated. “I heard the conversation, and only someone like you would take that so seriously and pose a question in that way.”

Leavitt’s newest briefing follows the president’s menace to invoke the Insurrection Act within the wake of widespread protests in Minnesota after the president surged federal officers into the state, drawing scenes of masked brokers ripping folks from inheritor vehicles and allegations of rampant racial profiling and indiscriminate arrests.

“In every situation we are doing targeted enforcement,” Noem stated Thursday morning in response to questions asking why some Americans have been requested to supply proof of citizenship in Minnesota.

“If we are on a target, there may be individuals surrounding that criminal that we may be asking who they are and why they’re there and having them validate their identity,” she added.

Asked what the Trump administration is doing to make sure residents aren’t wrongly arrested, Leavitt deflected.

“ICE is focused on detaining individuals who are unlawfully present in the country,” Leavitt stated Thursday. “That is their intention and that is their goal.”