White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt found herself at the center of a heated debate this week after defending President Donald Trump’s claims about U.S. strikes on Iran.
Multiple news outlets reported that the strikes only set back Iran’s nuclear program by a few months, contradicting Trump’s assertion that the nuclear sites were completely destroyed. The controversy began when CNN and other major news organizations reported that early intelligence assessments showed the Iranian nuclear facilities were not “obliterated” as Trump had claimed. This reporting sparked anger from the president, who spent much of the NATO summit attacking media organizations for their coverage of the strikes.
