Karoline Leavitt
White House press secretary until August 2026
4 findings
What the labels mean
- ConvictedA criminal jury found them guilty.
- Found liableA civil jury ruled against them.
- Court ruledA judge ruled against them or their policy.
- Watchdog foundAn inspector general, Congress's auditors at the GAO or UN investigators.
- AdmittedThey acknowledged it, or their own government's records and court filings show it.
- On recordSomething they said or did in public.
- ReportedNews reporting they deny or haven't confirmed.
- AllegedAccusations in lawsuits, complaints or from sources. Unproven.
Verdicts and rulings 1
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Court ruled
A Trump-appointed judge ruled the White House broke the First Amendment by banning the AP over “Gulf of America.”
Leavitt was a named defendant. Judge Trevor McFadden wrote that the government “cannot then shut those doors to other journalists because of their viewpoints.” An appeals panel later let the White House keep the AP out of the Oval Office and Air Force One while the case goes on.
Admitted or on record 3
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On record
At her first briefing she said $50 million in US money had gone to condoms in Gaza. It hadn’t.
PolitiFact rated it False; the aid group said it used no US money for condoms in Gaza, and a USAID report found no contraceptive funding for Gaza.
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On record
She asked a reporter why Renee Good was killed. When he said the agent acted without justification, she called him “a left-wing hack.”
An ICE officer had shot and killed Good, a US citizen, in Minneapolis eight days earlier.
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On record
She called the Signal chat story a “hoax” because the texts The Atlantic published weren’t “war plans.”
“The Atlantic has conceded: these were NOT ‘war plans,’” she posted. The published messages showed strike times for F-18s, drones and Tomahawk missiles before the Houthi strikes.