Karoline Leavitt suffers brutal blow as journalist fires back at awkward 'your mom' text
HuffPost journalist S.V. Date has been involved in a public feud with Karoline Leavitt after questioning her about Donald Trump's potential meeting with Vladimir Putin in Budapest
Karoline Leavitt has suffered a brutal blow as a HuffPost reporter fired back at her recent comments about him.
The White House press secretary has been involved in a public feud with journalist S.V. Date since he questioned her about who decided that Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin would meet in Budapest. When asked, Karoline, 28, retorted with "your mom did."
When she was called out for her odd text message, Karoline went on a profanity-laden tirade and later labeled the reporter a "left-wing hack." But the senior White House correspondent said he would be "failing" his audience if he didn't point out that President Donald Trump routinely "lies."
On Monday, Karoline posted a screenshot of her exchange with S.V. Date which showed that the journalist texted her on October 16, "Is the president aware of the significance of Budapest? In 1994, Russia promised, in Budapest, not to invade Ukraine if it gave up the nuclear weapons it inherited when the Soviet Union dissolved. Does he not see why Ukraine might object to that site? Who suggested Budapest? Thanks."
The press secretary replied, "Your mom did." After the reporter asked if she thought the question was funny, Karoline gave a lengthy and insulting response, saying, "It's funny to me that you actually consider yourself a journal. You are a far left hack who nobody takes seriously, including your colleagues in the media, they just don't tell you that to your face. Stop texting me your disingenuous, biased, and b------t questions."
S.V. then wrote a story about Karoline's response which received national attention. The reporter then appeared on CNN News Central on Tuesday afternoon and discussed the public feud with anchor Boris Sanchez. When asked about Karoline branding him a "left-wing hack," S.V. said he was not interested in "stenography" while covering Trump.
"I routinely say that the president lies - he does. What can I do? That's who he is," Date, who wrote a book in 2020 titled The Useful Idiot: How Donald Trump Killed the Republican Party With Racism and the Rest of Us With Coronavirus, said. "So I don't apologize for that at all."
He said of his book, "The title, of course, is from an old Russian phrase about people who do things because they're being used by others. And that's honestly, it's what it seemed in the first term that's what was going on with President Trump."
On Tuesday, Trump said his plan for a swift meeting with Putin was on hold because he didn't want it to be a "waste of time." It was the latest twist in Trump's stop-and-go effort to resolve the war in Ukraine. The decision to hold off on the meeting in Budapest, Hungary, which Trump had announced last week, was made following a call Monday between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
"I don't want to have a wasted meeting," Trump said. "I don't want to have a waste of time - so we'll see what happens." Lavrov made clear in public comments on Tuesday that Russia is opposed to an immediate ceasefire. Trump, meanwhile, has been shifting his stance all year on key issues in the war, including whether a ceasefire should come before longer-term peace talks, and whether Ukraine could win back land seized by Russia during almost four years of fighting.
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