Karoline Leavitt, President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming White House press secretary, deleted two social media posts she shared after the January 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol — including a retweet praising then-Vice President Mike Pence for certifying the 2020 election.

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Donald Trump had four different White House press secretaries during his first term as president: Sean Spicer, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Stephanie Grisham (who supported Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential race), and Kayleigh McEnany. And when he returns to the White House on January 20, 2025, that position will be held by 27-year-old Karoline Leavitt.According to CNN's Andrew Kaczynski, Leavitt will be "the youngest person ever …

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Leavitt’s evolving stance on the 2020 presidential election fraud claims and January 6 Capitol riots is under scrutiny after she deleted social media posts.

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Karoline Leavitt, now a devout election-denier, also reportedly extolled a Capitol police officer as a “hero” in a since-deleted social media post.

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By Andrew Kaczynski, CNN (CNN) — Karoline Leavitt, President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming White House press secretary, deleted two social media

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By Andrew Kaczynski, CNN (CNN) — Karoline Leavitt, President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming White House press secretary, deleted two social media posts she shared after the January 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol — including a retweet praising then-Vice President Mike Pence for certifying the 2020 election. The post included a video of Pence calling

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Karoline Leavitt, the woman poised to become the White House’s youngest-ever press liaison, once condemned the January 6 riots and praised former Vice President Mike Pence for certifying the 2020 election. In two since-deleted posts on X, CNN reports, Leavitt broke sharply from the false January 6 narrative that President-elect Donald Trump and his lackeys have since embraced: Namely, that the crowd that attacked the U.S. Capitol almost four yea…

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Karoline Leavitt, who Donald Trump has chosen as his White House press secretary, once criticized the Capitol insurrection and reposted praise for then–Vice President Mike Pence certifying the 2020 presidential election, before later deleting the social media posts. CNN reports that Leavitt made two posts on X (formerly Twitter) after the January 6, 2021, riots at the Capitol: one video of Pence calling the attacks “a dark day in the history of …

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Trump's press secretary pick removes post praising Pence on January 6, later runs for Congress as an election skeptic: CNN

Trump's press secretary pick removes post praising Pence on January 6, later runs for Congress as an election skeptic: CNN

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