Karoline Leavitt STUNS with DESPERATE plea

[0:00] Speaker 1 of 2019 Caroline Levitt is panicking and made it evident during a bizarre interview [0:04] with Donald Trump's daughter in law, and she is stunning people with a desperate plea. [0:11] Please keep blaming Joe Biden for everything, even though it's been 550 days since Joe Biden [0:19] left office. This is really a perfect preview of Republican strategy for the midterms. [0:26] blame Biden for everything. And if it happened under Biden, great. If it happened under Trump, [0:33] also blame Biden. And if it stops working and this is the interesting part, communism just [0:40] start saying communism, communism, communism and hope nobody has a follow up question. [0:46] Here is Caroline Levin. They all got me up to speed pretty quickly. And now we're back out at [0:51] the podium. Well, speaking of the midterms, we know the tradition, the party that has the White [0:56] House typically has an uphill battle for the midterms. And when you look at the top issue [1:02] among voters right now, it seems to be the cost of living. So what steps have been taken by the [1:08] White House to really address that? Because that's going to be important as we head towards November. [1:13] Yeah. Well, the president in the White House, we fully recognize that. And I would remind your [1:18] viewers and the American people of who caused the affordability crisis. Yeah. Tell us, Caroline, [1:24] please this country. It was Joe Biden and it was the Democrats in this city when they were in power. [1:29] And President Trump took immediate action on day one to fix that with his overall economic formula of [1:36] tax cuts, deregulation and energy dominance. That's what this administration has been working on [1:41] every single day for the past year and a half. President Trump and Republicans signed the largest [1:46] middle class tax cut in history. Every single Democrat voted against it. President Trump and Republicans [1:53] created Trump accounts where children who are signing up today, like my daughter, [1:57] will have nearly $300,000 worth of savings in these accounts by the time they are 18. [2:03] That is giving our children the American dream on a silver platter in the touch of an app. And [2:07] Democrats are opposed to that. How could you be? [2:10] Speaker 1 00. Leavitt says Trump took immediate action to fix affordability, but prices are up. [2:17] When has inflation been negative since Donald Trump took over? When have wages exceeded inflation [2:22] growth? Because even if you can't get inflate prices down, if you've got some inflation but wage [2:27] growth exceeds that inflation, people's purchasing power goes up. Never, never since Donald Trump took [2:33] over. In fact, we're down to 3.5 percent inflation now, which is still too high, according to Trump's [2:38] when Biden was president. 3.5 percent was too high, but it even hit 3.8 percent the previous month. [2:44] So hold on a second. Republicans control the White House in Congress. Biden hasn't been president for [2:49] 550 days. They've been given all of the power that they say Trump needs to fix all this stuff. [2:55] How many years into a Trump administration can we get before Trump is responsible for anything? [3:02] Now, nobody denies inflation surged under Biden at the beginning of his term. It surged globally. [3:09] The pandemic supply chain crisis, stimulus housing shortage, Russia's invasion of Ukraine. There [3:15] were a bunch of contributing factors. Biden was president and voters punished Democrats for it. [3:20] When Biden and Harris went outgoing, everything's awesome. Voters said, no, it's not. And Joe Biden [3:26] did not start Joe Donald Trump's war with Iran. Joe Biden did not impose global tariffs. Biden is not [3:33] forcing Trump to pursue any of these policies that raise the cost of fuel and the cost of imported goods in [3:40] the materials that American businesses use. Now, we have a study from the tax foundation and not [3:46] not a left wing entity. And the tax foundation estimates that Trump's tariffs this year will cost [3:53] every American household about $700 in addition to the 2025 tariffs, by the way. And meanwhile, [4:01] the Iran war is driving oil and gas prices up. And these are optional choices that Donald Trump made. [4:06] Now, Caroline Levitt's argument is Trump gets credit for anything good, but Biden gets blame for [4:12] anything bad. And apparently the presidency is powerful enough for Trump to fix everything. [4:18] That's how he campaigned, but never powerful enough for him to be blamed for a damn thing. Now, [4:26] Caroline Levitt then moved on to what Republicans are increasingly using as their substitute for an [4:31] economic argument. If you can blame Biden. Great. If you can talk about communism or our education [4:39] system, that's cool, too. Fox News polling shows that Democrats have a favorable opinion of socialism [4:46] over capitalism by a large majority, as opposed to Republicans who have by about 50 points, more [4:52] favorable view of capitalism over socialism. What do you make of those numbers? And what would your message [5:00] be maybe to independent voters who are looking at these two parties as we head towards the midterms? [5:05] You have one party, the Republican Party, obviously capitalists, you know, free market people who [5:11] want you to be able to keep more of your own money. Then you have the Democrats on the other side who [5:16] basically are taken over by socialists. Totally. The Democrat Party has totally capitulated to the [5:21] communists within their ranks. Communism has never worked. And it's very scary that a major political [5:28] party in this country, the Democrat Party, is being controlled by communists. And their only [5:33] real answer to any problem is to just take more from the individuals who make that country great [5:39] and give it to the government. You know, it sounds great to have free food, free health care, [5:44] free rent, but who's paying for all of that? We are. You will be. It's easy to sell, but it doesn't work. [5:50] And I think, unfortunately, so many people in this country are falling for it because [5:55] of our liberal biased education system. We live in the best country in the history of the world. [6:00] That's what our children should be taught. Listen, this conversation has become completely mind rotting. [6:07] But David, I thought you also weren't a communist. Well, listen, she says communism has never worked. [6:12] Fine. I'm not a communist. Neither is she. Most elected Democrats aren't communists. In fact, [6:17] I don't know of any that are most Democratic voters aren't communists. Wanting a combination [6:23] of expanded health care, school meals, housing assistance, lower rent doesn't mean we transfer [6:28] ownership of the economy to the state. That's not what is being advocated for. And these generic polls, [6:34] she talks about asking people, do you prefer capitalism or socialism or communism? They tell [6:40] us very little. You're basically polling reactions to what people often wrongly believe these words mean [6:48] without really talking about policy. Ask people about policies. Should children get meals at school? [6:55] Should Medicare negotiate prescription drug prices? Should somebody go bankrupt because they got cancer? [7:01] Should billionaires pay a higher effective tax rate than their secretaries? Should we be building [7:06] way more housing and preventing families from being thrown onto the street? Then we can debate what works, [7:12] what it costs and how to pay for it. But Caroline Levitt instead invents this fantasy platform of [7:18] unlimited free food and free rent and free health care, calls it communism and says everybody wants it [7:24] and says the education system is to blame for teaching everybody this crap. It's just not what's happening. [7:29] Finally, she explained why being Trump's press secretary is just so, so easy. This is good. Yeah, [7:38] I've been in this press world now for quite some time and it's constant and busy and evolving. So [7:43] it took me some time, you know, several days to really wrap my arms around everything that's going [7:49] on here at the White House. But thankfully, you know, working for the president, people always ask, [7:54] what's it like to be, you know, his spokesperson? And he makes it. It's so easy because he always tells [7:59] the truth. Very easy because he just tells you like it is and he's so accessible, not just to me, [8:06] but to all of his staff here. And so it just it was a GIF where I was really able to figure out [8:11] what was going on here in the building. Obviously received briefings from the secretary of state [8:16] and our policymakers, our legislative affairs team. What's going on in Capitol Hill? They all got me [8:21] up to speed pretty quickly. And now we're back out at the podium. Let's see. [8:25] Donald Trump may be the single worst example of somebody who just tells it like it is. He lies about [8:31] elections. He lies about tariffs. He lies about the economy. He lies about crowd sizes. He lies about wars. [8:36] He lies about how long wars will take. He lies about when we're getting his new health care plan. [8:40] He lies about the deficit. He lies about deals that don't exist. He'll contradict himself within [8:44] seconds in the same speech and then deny that he did it when anybody calls him on it, which, [8:49] by the way, his staff very rarely calls him on it. Levitt's job is easy only is that in that [8:55] there is no expectation of consistency. It's not easy because Trump always tells the truth. It's easy [9:00] because she can say one thing one day and the next thing the next day or the next minute. [9:04] And as long as she appears to be loyal to Trump, she's not going to get punished and she gets to [9:08] keep her job. This is the entire midterm message. Trump inherited every problem, created not a single [9:15] problem and deserves two more years to fix the things Republicans insist he has already fixed [9:21] and also are Joe Biden's fault anyway. It's incoherent. If voters judge them by what's happened to cost of [9:29] living instead of by the word communism, these Republicans are going to have a very serious [9:33] problem. But it depends on us getting out there and voting. And that is exactly what I plan to do.