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Karoline Leavitt’s first White House press briefing reaffirmed a truism about the Trump White House: His aides perform for an “audience of one.”
That pithy phrase, portraying President Donald Trump as the viewer-in-chief, was popularized when he first took office in 2017. Back then, press secretary Sean Spicer tried – and sometimes failed – to impress Trump during televised briefings.
Leavitt seems instantly well-suited to the task. Several times during Tuesday afternoon’s debut briefing, she expertly channeled the president, and she employed many of the same rhetorical tendencies. Leavitt exaggerated just like
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