Must Listen: White House Correspondent Offers Stark Assessment Of Karoline Leavitt vs. KJP

Posted • February 7, 2025: Fox News Senior White House Correspondent Jacqui Heinrich recently appeared on Guy Benson's radio show, and they covered a number of topics. Such as an Associated Press story this week that discussed the possibility of the White House needing to hire additional stenographers in order to keep up with avalanche of words emanating from the president, which must be chronicled for history and posterity. Incidentally, that story offered a requisite 'Trump is a liar, of course' disclaimer, which is basically a mandatory Statement of Faith among progressive journos who wish to remain in good standing with their peers. What's interesting about this drive-by 'fact check' is that one of just two examples of presidential "falsehoods" offered in the piece is, in fact, totally accurate. I'm perfectly willing to admit that Trump has a tendency to embellish, exaggerate, and fabricate. when it suits his interests. But hitting him for saying something that's entirely and verifiably true is a credibilty-destroying choice:

Guy Benson @guypbenson: ““Laden with falsehoods” such as…his “assertions that California water policies worsened the recent wildfires.” What? Existing reservoirs were empty, mandated reservoirs weren’t built, precious water was wasted & released into the ocean, and hydrants ran dry. AP: “False!”” https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gi-zjl6XQAAtsrn?format=jpg&name=medium -- Existing reservoirs were empty. Mandated reservoirs weren't built. Precious water was wasted and released into the ocean. And fire hydrants ran dry. Other water policy decisions are also under scrutiny. The AP's reporters and editors look at all of this and say it's a "falsehood" for Trump to say any of these factors worsened the recent wildfires. It's astonishing, and symptomatic of widespread media failures. In any case, elsewhere in that story, the sheer volume of Trump's words was quantified like this:

“The White House stenographers have a problem. Donald Trump is talking so much, the people responsible for transcribing his public remarks are struggling to keep up with all the words. There were more than 22,000 on Inauguration Day, then another 17,000 when Trump visited disaster sites in North Carolina and California. It’s enough to strain the ears and fingers of even the most dedicated stenographer, especially after four years of Joe Biden’s relative quiet. Now there are discussions about hiring additional staff to keep up with the workload, according to people with knowledge of the conversations who insisted on anonymity to discuss internal matters. The flood of words is one of the most visible — or audible — shifts from Biden to Trump, who craves the spotlight and understands better than most politicians that attention is a form of power.”

By one count, Trump has already answered more questions from members of the media during his new term than Joe Biden did over the course of years. Heinrich told me she doesn't doubt that. She also gave my audience an almost startlingly candid assessment of Trump's new White House Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, as compared to her Biden-era predecessor, Karine Jean Pierre: KJP VS. KAROLINE LEAVITT: Jacqui Heinrich joined the Guy Benson Show today and broke down the differences between WH Press Sec. Karoline Leavitt and her predecessor, KJP. Heinrich noted that Leavitt "really cares" about the job as opposed to KJP. (…)

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