White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, at Tuesday's briefing, criticized the "left-wing media" and "failed foreign policy establishment" for "actively rooting against the president in his pursuit of peace in Ukraine."
KAROLINE LEAVITT: For one thing that has absolutely not changed is the media's negative and downright false coverage of President Trump and his foreign policy accomplishments.
From the beginning of this entire process, much of the left-wing media has been actively rooting against the President of the United States in the pursuit of peace.
Initially, the media ridiculously claimed that President Trump was somehow beholden to Russia for even agreeing to have a face-to-face discussion with President Putin inside of the United States. The media said Trump was making a grave mistake by legitimizing Putin. They were aghast that President Trump would treat another world leader like a world leader.
The media relentlessly attacked President Trump and claimed he suffered a major defeat for not immediately emerging with a final agreement—even though he said heading into that meeting this was a meeting to listen and to understand how to move the ball forward.
All weekend following those historic U.S.–Russia bilateral talks, we listened to clueless pundits on television trying, but failing, to claim that the president had failed. The so-called experts in the foreign policy establishment, whose record is nothing but endless wars, trillions of wasted taxpayer dollars, and dead Americans, have the nerve to try and lecture President Trump—who has solved seven global conflicts in seven months—about peace.
This is the same president, by the way, who brokered the Abraham Accords in his first term, on top of more than half a dozen other peace deals this year alone, as I just said.
We also saw yesterday the president of Ukraine and all of the other major leaders of Europe fly across the Atlantic Ocean to meet President Trump at the White House because of the progress that was made at that so-called “failed” meeting. But it was not. It was highly productive, and it was successful.
This is why Americans' trust in the mass media is at the lowest point in more than five decades. Diplomacy is a delicate process, and instead of reporting the facts about what is happening here at this White House, and what is happening between this president and other leaders around the world, many outlets in this room continue to try to actively undermine the president and sabotage the efforts towards peace.
That is why I felt the need to set the record straight.
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