White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt sparred with a reporter who suggested that President Donald Trump was personally profiting from his time as president — specifically his upcoming trip to the Middle East — saying as Trump has in the past that he was likely losing money while he held the office.
During Friday’s White House briefing, a reporter asked whether Trump, while visiting the Middle East, planned to meet with people associated with his family business ventures in addition to political leaders — and Leavitt quickly read between the lines of her question.
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.@PressSec smacks down the Fake News: “It’s frankly ridiculous that anyone in this room would suggest that @POTUS is doing anything for his own benefit… This is a President who has actually lost money for being President… I don’t remember these same types of questions being…
