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The White House Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, has already overcome One of its Biden predecessors In the total number of verifications of Politifact facts after only two months in office.
On Thursday, Politifact issued Leavitt his last verification of facts About his statement“Tariffs are a tax cut for the American people.” Politifact described it “false” with the chief correspondent Louis Jacobson writing that “practically all economists” have characterized tariffs as “tax increases instead of tax cuts.”
This marked The third Leavitt politifact verifies facts Since his mandate began as a press secretary in January, which officially put it ahead of the complete registration of the former Biden press secretary, Jen Psaki, of verification of facts on the site.
Politifact has already verified the facts, Trump’s White House Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, three times compared to the twice of the Biden press secretary, Jen Psaki. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images | Photo of Nicholas Kamm/AFP through Getty Images)
In the sixteen months, Psaki took the position, Politifact only verified it twiceOnce in November 2021 and once in January 2022. His November claim on Build Back Better was qualified as “false”, while his January claim on Covid vaccines was described as “true.”
In contrast, Leavitt had Its first two verifications of Politifact Facts January 30, less than two weeks after starting the post and almost ten months before Psaki. One was qualified as “false”, while the other was qualified only “half truth.”
The verification of more aggressive facts from the door was marked by the conservative Media Watchdog Newsbusters.
This also put Leavitt only a verification of facts below the second press secretary of former President Biden, Karine Jean-Pierre, who received four facts of facts During all his time behind the podium. Jean-Pierre held the position from May 2022 to January 2025.
Of the four times that Jean-Pierre, of Jean-Pierre, two verified, two were qualified as “false”, while the other two were qualified as “mostly true.” Politifact did not begin to verify Jean-Pierre until June 2022, approximately one month after his mandate began.
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Comparatively, fellow press secretaries under President Donald Trump such as Spicer, Kayleigh Mcenany And Sarah Huckabee Sanders has also been reviewed by Politifact more than under Biden press secretaries.
Mcenany was Fact verification four times By Politifact during the period in which he was a press secretary from 2020 to 2021.
Sanders received five verifications from Politifact Facts Regarding the comments he made during a white house conference, with a verification of events for an interview with ABC.
Leavitt is just a verification of facts behind his predecessor, Karine Jean-Pierre. (Somodevilla/Getty images)
Spicer received nine verifications from Politifact Facts During the six months he held the post of press secretary in 2017.
In a comment to Fox News Digital, White House spokesman Taylor Rogers said: “The so -called ‘reporters’ of Politifact are not verifiers of facts; they are crossed from the left dedicated to turning the truth, perpetrating lies and promoting the radical agenda of the Democrats. Karoline Leavitt has been so honest and transparent with the press that the false verifiers in politics are having a difficult time to see any difficult time to see any difficult time to see any time to see any time You are in fact.
Fox News Digital contacted Politifact for a comment.
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