“This is exactly what we mean when we say FAKE NEWS!” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt declared Friday, in a post featuring video of MSNBC’s treatment of President Donald Trump when he tried to inform Americans about the disreputable background of a deported illegal alien the liberal media want returned to the U.S.
Pres. Trump was beginning to list unsavory facts about Kilmer Abrego Garcia, an illegal alien who was deported back to his home country of El Salvador, when MSNBC began lowering the president’s volume, then quickly cut away while he was in mid-sentence.
🚨 @MSNBC cuts away from Oval Office coverage just as @POTUS reads the facts about Salvadoran MS-13 gangbanger Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) April 18, 2025
The Fake News doesn't want the American people to know the TRUTH. pic.twitter.com/QkpK0JK2Hl
“We've been watching president Donald Trump there, swearing in the new administrator of the CMS, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, Doctor Mehmet Oz,” MSNBC Host Ali Vitali interjected, changing the subject:
“During this conversation he's been having with the press, we heard him say several things around the war in Ukraine and Russia after his administration had said they might not continue with negotiations there.”
Vitali appears to ignore the caption at the bottom of the MSNBC broadcast: “TRUMP: A JUDGE WASN’T ELECTED, I WAS ELECTED,” a reference to a judge’s ruling that the illegal alien Garcia must be returned to the U.S.
Eventually, MSNBC’s Vitali acknowledged Pres. Trump’s comments about Garcia – by bringing on a NBC correspondent to dispute the president’s remarks:
“I want to bring NBC news White House correspondent Vaughn Hillyard back into our conversation, because we have to do a few fact checks here.”
Trump's truths about Garcia fly in the face of the leftist, legacy media narrative that the illegal alien, MS-13 gang member, and purported wife-beater is, somehow, a victim and a paragon of virtue with the right to live in the U.S.
This is exactly what we mean when we say FAKE NEWS! https://t.co/ZmaEx4fPJy
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) April 18, 2025