Karoline Leavitt Shuts Down Reporter Asking If Trump Thinks Canceling Elections Is 'Funny': 'Were You in the Room?'
Elections,Trump Agenda,Press Secretary,Midterm Elections,Rhetoric,Term Limits,Third Term,Election Integrity
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt shut down a reporter on Thursday for asking whether President Donald Trump believes the idea of "canceling elections" is "funny."
At a fiery press conference, Leavitt clashed with multiple reporters, including The Independent's White House Correspondent Andrew Feinberg, who followed up on Leavitt saying the president was "joking" when he told Reuters in an interview that "we shouldn't even have an election" in reference to the midterms...
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