White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt probably thought she could easily put to rest recurring rumors that fisticuffs broke out recently in the Oval Office between Elon Musk and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, but she was sadly mistaken.
Speaking with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo yesterday, Leavitt was asked about a report from The Washington Post alleging that Musk “body-checked” Bessent in April.
“We’re all trying to figure out what happened here and how come this got to this level,” Bartiromo explained.
“What happened? Did he body-check the Treasury Secretary in the White House?”
Leavitt’s response only made a bad situation worse.
In full spin mode, the press secretary claimed there were “healthy disagreements amongst the cabinet and Elon Musk” that she said “really speaks to the heart of this cabinet and the president’s team, that they can have these robust disagreements and then still come together to do what’s right for the people they are serving.”
“What I’m trying to understand here is how rough this got, because the president said that Elon Musk disrespected the office of the president,” Bartiromo told Leavitt.
“Now, we know that there was real disrespect in a lot of those X posts from Elon Musk, for sure. But did he actually get physical?” she continued. “Was there a fistfight that he body-checked the treasury secretary?”
Leavitt: “I certainly wouldn’t describe it as a fist fight, Maria. It was definitely a disagreement. Although, I was not there, I didn’t witness it with my own eyes. I heard about it through secondhand reporting. But again, we’ve moved on from that. The president has moved on from it.”
You weren’t there, but it wasn’t a fist fight? How in the hell do you know if you weren’t there?!
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The only people who lie more than Donald Trump are the people he hires to lie for him.
