Karoline Leavitt struggled to justify President Donald Trump’s recent comments downplaying domestic violence, weaving a defense that contradicted itself within two sentences.

During an event on Monday, the president complained that crime statistics in Washington D.C. were inflated because “things that take place in the home, they call crime.”

“If a man has a little fight with the wife they say ‘this was a crime, see?’” Trump said.

“He wasn’t referring to crimes, that’s exactly the point he was making,” Leavitt said when a reporter asked her about the comments on Tuesday.

However, the press secretary immediately contradicted herself by calling the acts Trump was referring to—altercations between men and their wives—as “crimes.”

“The president is saying that these crimes will be mad

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