Tuesday’s White House press briefing came nearly 24 hours before President Donald Trump’s alleged blockbuster tariffs against foreign countries around the globe, so the questions naturally skewed toward this issue and good-faith, legitimate questions for Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt from Fox’s Peter Doocy and Edward Lawrence, NewsNation’s Kellie Meyer, NOTUS’s Jasmine Wright, and Politico’s Dasha Burns.
2WayApp’s Mark Halperin led off the briefing in the new media seat, starting with tariffs and specifically what factors Trump would take in place to remove any if foreign companies and/or countries reached out:
Fox’s Peter Doocy came next and again proved a change in administration didn’t mean he was going to let up in the difficulty of his questions:
Doocy moved onto Tuesday’s elections, but not before one simple follow-up:…