‘She Should Be Ashamed of Herself!’ Karoline Leavitt Unleashes on CNN Reporter Trump Wants Network to Fire

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt laid into CNN national security correspondent Natasha Bertrand on Thursday, one day after President Donald Trump demanded the reporter be “thrown out like a dog” over her reporting on the U.S.’s strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities.

Trump took aim at Bertrand over her reporting on a leaked intelligence assessment that concluded strikes against the Iranian sites likely only set their nuclear programs back by months, rather than years as the president and other officials claimed. Trump has called the report “fake news” and lashed out at The New York Times and others for reporting on the assessment.

At a Thursday press conference, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth blasted CNN and said the initial leaked report was an early assessment and those are “almost always wrong, almost always incomplete.” Hegseth maintained that Iran’s nuclear sites were “obliterated.”

At a Thursday White House press briefing, Leavitt called out Bertrand by name and suggested she was being “used” by Washington, D.C. insiders with an anti-Trump agenda to “push a false narrative.” She also claimed only “bits and pieces” of the initial report were leaked.

As Leavitt called out Bertrand from her podium, she listed out other reporting the administration takes issue with, including reporting in 2020 on dozens of intelligence officials chalking up Hunter Biden’s infamously abandoned laptop to Russian disinformation, as well as reports on the origins of Covid-19.

“This is a reporter who has been unfortunately used by people who dislike Donald Trump in this government to push fake and false narratives. She should be ashamed of herself,” Leavitt said.

She continued by telling Bertrand how to do her job. CNN has said in a statement that they are standing “100%” behind Bertrand and her reporting.

“That’s not what reporting is. Journalism is trying to find the facts and the truth. And this week we saw this same reporter being used to push a fake narrative to try to undermine the President of the United States and more importantly the brave fighter pilots who conducted one of the most successful operations in United States history,” Leavitt said. “And I think the American people fully know that this operation was a complete and total success.”

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