Karoline Leavitt Bashes MS NOW for Incorrect Report She Was on Trump’s ‘Decoy’ Plane: ‘More Fake News’

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt called out MS NOW on Tuesday morning for reporting that she was on President Donald Trump’s “decoy plane” when he left a NATO Summit in Turkey last month — even though Leavitt didn’t go on the trip.

“More Fake News from MS NOW and the libs online,” Leavitt posted on X.

Her post was in response to a clip posted by Newsbusters managing editor Curtis Houck. The clip showed MS NOW anchor Jacob Soboroff asking The New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman on Sunday about the operation, which had Trump board one plane in front of cameras before switching to a decoy plane in an effort to thwart a credible threat from Iran.

“Tell us about the people that he brought with him on the catering truck to the plane and why them and not all these other folks like Marco Rubio, or Stephen Miller, or Karoline Leavitt.”

Haberman quickly corrected him and said Leavitt was not on the trip.

“Got it,” Soboroff said.

Right as Haberman corrected him, MS NOW flashed a graphic showing Leavitt was “left on the decoy plane” along with Rubio, Miller, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

“I can guess why Natalie Harp and Dan Scavino were with [Trump],” Haberman continued. “There may have been others, those are the ones we know about. Pete Hegseth, I believe, was there because this was a military operation primarily, and he was on a military jet, so that doesn’t surprise me.”

She went on to describe Harp as “sort of [Trump’s] binky, for lack of a better way of putting it.”

Soboroff corrected himself again later in the show.

“I didn’t realize that Karoline Leavitt was not aboard the plane. It was Steven Cheung,” he said. “And there’s like this online conspiracy going around that Karoline Leavitt is quitting because she was left behind. Sorry to laugh that she was left behind on the old air force one. Turns out she wasn’t, but she’s leaving anyways.”

Leavitt’s public bashing of MS NOW comes less than a week after Trump announced she was stepping down as his press secretary. The White House has not yet said who will replace Leavitt when she leaves at the end of August.

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