“Karoline Leavitt is overqualified, brilliant and was well-versed and ready,” Habba said. “She answered every question. She didn’t need a thick binder, Whoopi, sorry, unlike our last press secretary who was put in their for … DEI reasons.”
Besides launching a false, racially charged insult at Jean-Pierre ― a Columbia grad who logged extensive experience in the Biden and Barack Obama administrations and their campaigns ― Habba forgot an important detail: Trump’s last White House press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, also used a thick binder. So that burn fizzled in a hurry.
Leavitt has faced tough early reviews. She was accused of being evasive about the targets of Trump’s attempted freeze on federal grants and loans, and claimed to have answered a question about it when she hadn’t.