‘Never Accept Accountability’: Karoline Leavitt Flees As Reporter Calls Her Out for Blatant Lie While Defending Trump’s Threat to Put Dems to Death

A rattled White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt tried to defend her boss, President Donald Trump, at Thursday’s press briefing during intense questioning about Trump’s calls to execute six Democratic lawmakers over a video message urging U.S. troops to protect the Constitution and refuse illegal military orders, but ended up fleeing the briefing in indignation instead. It started about 22 minutes into the press briefing with a question from CBS News Chief White House Correspondent Nancy Cordes. “This morning President Trump accused six Democratic lawmakers of ‘SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR punishable by DEATH.’ Just to be clear, does the president want to execute members of Congress?” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt listens to a reporter during a press briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on July 17, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) Leavitt insisted Trump was not calling for the execution of the lawmakers. “Let’s be clear about what the President is responding to because many in this room want to talk about the President’s response, but not what brought the president to responding in this way,” she began. Kaitlan Collins to Leavitt as she walks off: "Karoline, you misquoted Democrats in...