White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt tore into CNN’s Kaitlan Collins during a Thursday briefing over her network’s failure to press former President Joe Biden about poor economic indicators while he was in office.
“With respect to affordability, every economic metric, Kaitlan, and I wish you would report more on it, does in fact show that the economy is getting better and brighter than where it was under the previous administration,” Leavitt shot back when pressed by Collins about President Trump’s economy.
“There’s a lot more scrutiny on this issue from this press than there was,” she went on. “My predecessor stood up at this podium and she said inflation doesn’t exist.”
Asked later about a potential move by the president to force new ownership of CNN, Leavitt took Collins to task again.
“I think the president’s comments yesterday about the sale of CNN and new leadership is evidenced by my exchange with a CNN reporter in this room,” she said.“Their viewership has gone down. Their ratings have declined, and I think the president rightfully believes that network would benefit from new ownership with respect to this deal,” Leavitt added.
