During a briefing Monday afternoon otherwise dominated by probing questions about the weekend deportation flights of dangerous illegal immigrants who belong to the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua (TdA), White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt took a moment to zing the French after a French member of the European Parliament demanded the U.S. return the Statue of Liberty.
Fox’s Peter Doocy had cued her up: “There is now a member of the European Parliament from France who does not think the U.S. represents the values of the statue of Liberty anymore. They want the statue of Liberty back. So, is President Trump going to send the Statue of Liberty back to France?”
Leavitt fired back at MEP member Raphaël Glucksmann of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats: “Absolutely not. And my advice to that unnamed, low-level French politician…
