Karoline Leavitt Shuts Down Total BS About Bipartisan Calls
“We did make bipartisan calls. Thomas Massie and the Democrats, he should be a Democrat because he’s more aligned with them than with the Republican Party, were given notice. The White House made calls to congressional leadership. They were bipartisan calls. In fact, Rep. Jeffries couldn’t be reached. We tried him before the strike and he didn’t pick up the phone, but he was briefed after as well as Senator Schumer was briefed prior to the strike. So this notion that CNN ran with, that the White House did not give a heads up to Democrats, is just completely false. In fact, both Senator Schumer’s office and CNN had to retract that story last night because it was a blatant lie and we showed them the timestamps from those phone calls. But I want to add something to Thomas Massie’s false points. The White House was not obligated to call anyone because the president was acting within his legal authority under Article 2 of the Constitution as commander in chief of the United States. We gave these calls as a courtesy, and the Democrats are lying about this because they can’t talk about the truth of the success of that operation and the success of our United States military and the success of this president and this administration in doing something that past administrations, Democrats too, have only dreamed about.”