White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is under scrutiny for ignoring reporters after inviting questions during a recent press briefing.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is under scrutiny for ignoring reporters after inviting questions during a recent press briefing.
No shit, they love that people are upset about it. That’s why she did it. To exercise and exert power over the situation, to show they don’t have to answer anyone’s questions. They will do what they plan to do anyway.
When they do things like this they are expressing power and the intent is to get people upset but unable to do anything. They want to show us they can get away with it. Period.
They did it because they wanted to trot out the mother of a victim to endorse their unlawful deportations and didn’t want to ruin the PR stunt by risking someone asking questions and injecting a little reality into the event.
Friendly media will run with a story about an emotional plea from a grieving mother that makes it sound like the only thing standing between mass rape and murder is the Trump administration deporting illegals before they get a chance to strike. The rest of the media will describe the event and basically let the same message get through with a footnote about the lack of questions and maybe a quote from someone on the other side for balance. Any outlet that would lead with the refusal to answer questions is one that was going to be critical anyway. There’s really no downside for them.
They would change their tune if someone showed a little backbone.
As in cervical vertebrae? Displaying them does tend to make an impression