White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt got into a heated back and forth with reporters on Wednesday as she held her first briefing since President Donald Trump’ federalized the National Guard in California and sent active-duty Marines to join them in cracking down on protests and unrest over immigration roundups in Los Angeles.
Leavitt condemned the protests as “shameful,” citing what she described as “left-wing radicals waving foreign flags” who she accused of “viciously attacking” Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officers and Border Patrol agents as well as Los Angeles Police Department officers as part of an assault on “American culture and society itself.”
