‘DON’T SCREAM AT THEM’: Karoline Leavitt Rips Reporters

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt strongly criticized reporters during a press gaggle when multiple journalists persistently shouted over each other while attempting to question two Trump administration officials.

Leavitt joined Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff and National Security Advisor Michael Waltz at the Stakeout Location outside the White House as they addressed various foreign policy matters. However, when the press corps' loud interruptions prevented the officials from answering, Leavitt stepped forward to reprimand them.

“Guys, please. Let’s act like adults here. They are generously offering their time to answer your questions. You don’t need to scream at them like a bunch of school children,” Leavitt firmly stated.

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Leavitt made waves on Tuesday by revealing that the initial flights transporting illegal migrants to Guantanamo Bay were officially “underway.”

Speaking on Fox Business, Leavitt assured host Stuart Varney that President Donald Trump remained steadfast in his commitment to deport violent illegal aliens and return them to their countries of origin.

“He’s no longer going to allow America to be a dumping ground for illegal criminals from nations all over this world,” Leavitt asserted.

She further elaborated, saying, “Venezuela as well has agreed to repatriation flights and Colombia also agreed to cooperate with the repatriation of illegal Colombian nationals that we have found in the interior of our country. And I can also confirm that today the first flights from the United States to Guantanamo Bay with illegal migrants are underway.”

Additionally, Leavitt commented on New Jersey Democratic Governor Phil Murphy’s recent remarks about potentially housing an undocumented immigrant in his residence. Murphy has since retracted the statement, clarifying his stance on the issue.

“I will say that this administration will hold Democrat governors and leaders across the country accountable if they break the law, if they harbor illegal aliens, or if they are not abiding by the federal immigration laws,” Leavitt cautioned.

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On Monday night, Leavitt also took aim at legacy media for ridiculing President Trump and conservatives during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic when they suggested that the virus may have originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China.

Her remarks followed confirmation from Trump’s newly appointed CIA Director, John Ratcliffe, that intelligence now supports the theory that the virus emerged from the Wuhan lab.

“Many years too late, the Biden administration had a chance to let the American people know the truth about that, and for some reason, they chose not to,” Leavitt remarked during a White House press briefing.

Ratcliffe, in an interview with Breitbart News, addressed the intelligence community’s handling of the issue.

“I know from conversations with the president about where his priorities are and where he wants things to be as it concerns foreign threats to America’s national security posture, and it starts with China,” Ratcliffe explained. “One of the things that I’ve talked about a lot is addressing the threat from China on a number of fronts, and that goes back to why a million Americans died and why the Central Intelligence Agency has been sitting on the sidelines for five years in not making an assessment about the origins of COVID.”

“That’s a day-one thing for me,” he continued. “I’ve been on record, as you know, in saying I think our intelligence, our science, and our common sense all really dictate that the origins of COVID was a leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. But the CIA has not made that assessment or at least not made that assessment publicly. So I’m going to focus on that and look at the intelligence and make sure that the public is aware that the agency is going to get off the sidelines.”