White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt dragged former President Barack Obama into the Jimmy Kimmel scandal in an attempt to shield Donald Trump from accusations of censorship — but her defense quickly unraveled when Trump’s own past rant said otherwise.
In an interview on Fox News on Saturday, a gleeful Leavitt responded to a post on X by Obama about Kimmel on Kayleigh McEnany’s show “Saturday in America.”
“With all due respect to former President Obama, he has no idea what he’s talking about,” a grinning Leavitt proclaimed.
Obama called out the Trump administration for complaining about cancel culture then turnaround and take it to a “new and dangerous level.”
Leavitt denied the administration had anything to do with it.
“The decision to fire Jimmy Kimmel and to cancel his show