Panicked WH Has Disaster Presser as Trump Cracks

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Speaker 2 The White House just wrapped up two disastrous press conferences, and the press asked after just this nonsense being spewed, can we speak to Donald Trump's doctor, please?

Speaker 2 Can we speak to a medical professional here? Are we going to get access? Because what the heck is going on?

Speaker 2 To which Donald Trump's chief propagandist, Caroline Levitt, during her press conference, was like, Yeah, I'm not sure we're going to be able to do that.

Speaker 2 So there was a Caroline Levitt press conference, and then there was a Janine Pirot. She's now Donald Trump's top attorney, federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C.
There was that press conference.

Speaker 2 Let me just show you what went down. So, first, you have Caroline Levitt being asked, Donald Trump said he was going to Russia.
He kept on calling Alaska Russia. What did he mean by that?

Speaker 2 Watch her try to cover up for Trump's cognitive impairment. Here, play this clip.

Speaker 10 Charlie.

Speaker 11 The president said to Podium yesterday twice that he was planning to go to Russia.

Speaker 12 Was that a verbal slip-up or does he actually plan to go to Russia?

Speaker 10 Perhaps there are plans in the future to travel to Russia. And on Friday, the president will be meeting with the Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska, as you know.
Phil.

Speaker 2 So then the reporter says, Are we going to be able to speak to his doctors here? Play this clip.

Speaker 11 Back to some from last month.

Speaker 13 You guys announced the president was diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency after his legs were seen swelling.

Speaker 13 How's he being treated for that?

Speaker 10 And

Speaker 13 while you were upfront about those health health issues, curious if the White House would be willing to let us speak with his physician directly about those health issues.

Speaker 13 I know there were a lot of concerns with the last White House not making the physician available. Would the physician be available in this case?

Speaker 10 I don't want to make that commitment on behalf of the physician, but it's certainly something we can look into and explore out of the effort of transparency because, unlike the previous White House, there is nothing to hide.

Speaker 10 You guys see this president working around the clock, literally 24-7, all of the time, And I will be happy to look into that request.

Speaker 13 Can you at least get an update on how he's being treated for the swelling legs and for the hands and the other issues?

Speaker 10 Look, you see the president every day. He's moving, he's working, he's continuing.
There have been no adjustments made to his lifestyle.

Speaker 2 And then Caroline Levitt's like, look, our motto is trust in Trump. Don't be a panican.
Just trust whatever Donald Trump says. She literally says that here.
Play this clip.

Speaker 10 Ignore the panicins and trust in President Trump. That is our motto here at the White House.
The America First Economic Agenda is working.

Speaker 2 Now, the new person who Donald Trump wants to appoint as the Bureau and Labor Statistics Commissioner is out there saying that there shouldn't be jobs reports published on a monthly basis and that none of the information should be reliable because all of the economic indicators are pointing in a very bad direction.

Speaker 2 So Caroline Lebitz asked about that. Like, hey, so is nothing reliable? Is the White House position that job data, inflation, that we should throw it all out? Here, play this clip.

Speaker 16 Just on the BLS, they collect the inflation data, obviously. If the jobs data is not reliable, should Americans trust the inflation data?

Speaker 10 Well, look, the jobs data has had massive revisions.

Speaker 10 We want to ensure that all of the data, the inflation data, the jobs data, any data point that is coming out of the BLS is trustworthy and is accurate, which is why the president has restored new leadership at the BLS.

Speaker 17 Sure, go ahead.

Speaker 2 So then Donald Trump fired his sixth IRS commissioner in six months,

Speaker 2 the former commissioner Billy Long. So Caroline Levitts asked,

Speaker 2 why'd you fire that guy? I mean, didn't Trump like him? You're now going to have seven people who are the IRS commissioners in as many months.

Speaker 2 Now, it was reported that one of the things that Billy Long was uncomfortable about doing was turning over certain IRS data of migrants and other people for Donald Trump to attack.

Speaker 2 But watch what Caroline Levitt says. Watch what the propaganda artist says.
Play this clip.

Speaker 14 Thanks, Caroline.

Speaker 14 What was the reason that President Trump chose to move on from Billy Long as IRS commissioner?

Speaker 10 Look, I think the president wants to see Billy Long as the ambassador to Iceland. As you know, that is where he will be headed.

Speaker 10 And the president loves Billy Long, and he thinks that he can serve the administration well in this position. For now, Secretary Scott Besson will be the acting IRS commissioner.

Speaker 2 And speaking of the horrendous propaganda from this press conference, this disastrous press press conference, Caroline Levitt, we told you this was going to happen, blamed the federal judge in New York for not releasing the Ghylaine Maxwell grand jury transcripts when y'all have 300 gigabytes at the FBI and DOJ.

Speaker 2 You have the files. The grand jury transcript from one day of grand jury testimony from one FBI officer, which is not allowed to be released because grand jury testimony can't be released.

Speaker 2 That isn't shedding light on anything new. All that would do is give Delaine Maxwell a guaranteed new trial if you released it.

Speaker 2 And the federal judge said as much in the order, how disingenuous the regime was being, but the regime always wanted to blame the judges for not turning over the Epstein files.

Speaker 2 Y'all have the files, not the judge. You have it right now.
Release it. Play this clip.

Speaker 12 Another question on something that happened yesterday, but I wanted to get the White House response. A judge

Speaker 12 ruled that the grand jury transcripts in Delaney Maxwell's case should not be released. What's the White House response to that? And do you plan to appeal?

Speaker 17 And what do you tell President Trump's supporters who want that information released?

Speaker 10 We think that decision is unfortunate. Of course, we move to unseal that information because the president has said he wants to see credible evidence released.

Speaker 10 As for the appeal process, I would defer you to the Department of Justice for that.

Speaker 2 So then Caroline Levitt has asked more about Donald Trump's new Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner, saying that the Bureau of Labor Statistics should suspend all monthly reports on economic data like job reports.

Speaker 2 And Caroline Levitt was like, damn, he was just floating it.

Speaker 2 It was just a float. Here, play this clip.

Speaker 18 Caroline.

Speaker 9 Yeah, thanks, Caroline.

Speaker 19 I know you said earlier the hope is to maintain monthly job reports, but the president's new nominee for BLS, Commissioner, E.J.

Speaker 19 Antoni, recently told Fox Business that the BLS should suspend issuing monthly job reports and only issue quarterly reports until the jobs data methodology is corrected.

Speaker 19 So, does the president disagree with that assessment that his nominee has said there, or suspending these monthly job reports a real option?

Speaker 10 I think he floated the idea of possibly suspending until they can get the data and the methodology in order.

Speaker 10 And this president wants to ensure that the BLS, again, is putting out accurate and honest data that the American people can trust.

Speaker 10 Since you brought up the new commissioner, he holds a master's and doctor's degree in economics from Northern Illinois University.

Speaker 10 He's the chief economist in the Heritage Foundation's Center for the federal budget. And in addition to his work at Heritage, he has multiple other roles.

Speaker 10 He's been widely renowned for his work on economic issues. He's been called before Congress to testify as an economic expert.

Speaker 10 So he's a qualified individual and the president trusts him to lead this important department.

Speaker 17 Sure, go ahead.

Speaker 17 Given that.

Speaker 2 And then interestingly, Caroline Levitt, I mean, she lies. She says she reads the Los Angeles Times every single day.
I just find it odd. I mean, nothing against the L.A.
Times, but she reads the L.A.

Speaker 2 Times every day. I highly doubt that, number one.
And she goes, I read them every day, but they're notorious for misleading the public. Here, play this clip.

Speaker 16 outside an L.A. high school, even leaving bullets on the sidewalk.

Speaker 16 How does the Trump administration plan to ensure parents, if their children, can return to to school without fear of being wrongfully detained or endangered by federal agents?

Speaker 10 Where did you see that report?

Speaker 17 LA Times.

Speaker 10 Okay, well, I'll have to look into the veracity of that report. I read the LA Times almost every single day, and they are notorious for misleading the public.

Speaker 10 I'm sure there's more to that story than the way that you just characterized it. This administration wants to ensure that all school children across the country and every city from Los Angeles to D.C.

Speaker 10 can go to school safely. And that's part of this administration's effort to federalize the National Guard in Washington to ensure that ICE is removing child predators.

Speaker 10 I just read you a list of a handful, just a handful, of the hundreds of thousands of child predators that this administration is removing off of the streets of Los Angeles and every other community across this country, because we want to ensure this is a country where American school children can be safe, where they can prosper, and where they are not threatened by violent criminals.

Speaker 10 whether they are illegal or whether they are American citizen homegrown criminals, as this president calls them. So I will gladly go check on that report and I'll get you the facts.

Speaker 12 Thank you, Earl.

Speaker 2 Then she's asked, well, what do you say to all of these small businesses who say they've tried to eat the tariffs for as long as they can, but they can't survive anymore.

Speaker 2 So they're going to have to pass on the prices to consumers.

Speaker 2 What do you say to them? And she's like, just know the trust in Trump. He loves you.
He loves businesses. It's not answering the question.

Speaker 2 And then, of course, like with everything she says, she just blames Biden. Biden, Biden, Biden.
Let me be clear.

Speaker 2 Under the Wall Street Journal's articles and The Economist's articles, they said that America's economy under Biden was the envy of the world and a Goldilocks economy.

Speaker 2 And they said it was going to soar. And Donald Trump destroyed it.
But play this clip.

Speaker 16 Yeah, two questions on the economy. So first, we've had small businesses tell us that it's not foreign exporters who are eating the tariffs.
It's them.

Speaker 16 And they've held off on raising prices, but soon they're going going to have to raise prices. What is the White House's message to them?

Speaker 10 The White House's message to our small business owners across the country is: you have never had a better ally, or friend, or supporter in this White House than President Donald Trump, who is a businessman himself, who understands your concerns and who wants to restore wealth back to our country through the powerful use of tariffs.

Speaker 10 And that's what he's focused on doing while simultaneously driving down costs.

Speaker 10 You have to remember, we are six months into this administration, and we had a president who had no business experience, had no idea what he was doing, and who funneled billions of wasteful spending dollars into our economy, which created the worst inflation crisis in a generation.

Speaker 10 Now, this president is focused on tackling inflation, deregulating, cutting costs, cutting red tape to make it easier for small business owners to thrive.

Speaker 10 And again, the economic indicators show that we are moving in the right direction.

Speaker 2 And then Caroline Levitt is asked about Donald Trump posting earlier this morning that he was considering filing a major lawsuit against his own chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell.

Speaker 2 So Trump is going to sue his own administration. Huh? Here play this clip.

Speaker 18 Thank you. The president weighed in on Jay Powell again today.
You might have seen.

Speaker 18 He said that he's considering allowing a major lawsuit against Powell to proceed because of the quote horrible, engrossing, confident job he is like. Can you tell us about that?

Speaker 17 What lawsuit is he talking about?

Speaker 10 He's considering a lawsuit, and I won't speak on it any further. I will allow the president to do that himself.

Speaker 17 The administration is considering suing the Fed chair over this renovation of the case.

Speaker 10 That's what the president is saying.

Speaker 17 Has he had discussions with the devoter, with anyone about this, or is this just like what how the feds is right now?

Speaker 10 At this moment in time, the president is considering a lawsuit against the Fed, and I will leave it to him to comment further on it.

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Speaker 2 She doesn't care about that. Here, play this clip.

Speaker 20 I honestly am not concerned about why they commit crimes. My concern is if they commit crimes.
My concern is the victims of the crimes. That's my job as a U.S.
attorney. Go ahead.

Speaker 10 Just follow up on that quickly.

Speaker 17 This is a felony one.

Speaker 2 Here she is just yelling at reporters who ask her, well, if you say one of the big issues is gun violence, aren't you encouraging more people to have dangerous weapons?

Speaker 2 Like, and you're defunding gun prevention. And then, Judge Janine Pirro, now the top federal prosecutor in D.C., goes,

Speaker 2 just stop it. Stop asking me.
Here, play this clip.

Speaker 20 Out of time?

Speaker 20 That means you've had enough. Goodbye.
Thank you.

Speaker 20 I want you to report on this.

Speaker 10 But

Speaker 10 you said it's guns on the street that's causing this problem. Are you concerned that the DOJ's funding cuts to gun violence prevention programs undermined the efforts? Stop it.

Speaker 20 We are putting all kinds of resources onto the street.

Speaker 10 But what about the gun aspect of the gun violence?

Speaker 17 Thanks.

Speaker 2 And here, Janine Pirro admits, as I've previously reported, that the DOJ has lost 90, 9-0,

Speaker 2 90 lawyers,

Speaker 2 or that they've lost all of their staff because people keep on quitting and getting fired.

Speaker 2 They were down rather to only 90 lawyers, like hundreds of people quit and resign.

Speaker 2 Watch what she and she goes, I don't really care about the facts off the record. I don't care about the facts.
Here, watch what she says.

Speaker 20 I don't have any special powers. I wish I did.

Speaker 2 Can you talk about where you stand on hiring prosecutors and judges?

Speaker 20 I am.

Speaker 20 I am, you know, I'm not going to bore you with the facts.

Speaker 20 That's, don't quote me on that. That was off the record.

Speaker 20 I can only hire during certain periods once there's been an ad or some kind of posting, and then I can hire. Okay, I'm doing it.
I'm doing the best I can.

Speaker 20 The president has given me the permission to hire. This is an office that has been neglected.
And I'll say it publicly. It's been neglected.

Speaker 20 With people signing contracts, they didn't know what they were signing. All right, it just kind of ran on its own.
Not anymore.

Speaker 20 This is an office where nobody seemed to care that we were down 90 lawyers, 60 investigators, and paralegals.

Speaker 2 I do.

Speaker 20 And so my effort is to get people who want to work in the nation's capital, want to work in the largest United States attorney's office in the country and the best office, because we're not just federal prosecutors, we're local prosecutors.

Speaker 20 We get down and dirty in street crime. And that is what really motivates a lot of my prosecutors.

Speaker 2 There you have it, folks. Disastrous press conferences in the White House.
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