The Daily Blast: Trump Aide Karoline Leavitt’s Ugly Tirade Over Legal Losses Is Ominous

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Chris Cotnoir

Government

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🗓️ 13 February 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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With President Donald Trump’s agenda suddenly facing a huge wave of lawsuits, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt unleashed a long, angry tirade on Wednesday about the mounting court rulings against the president. Laughably, she claimed that this constitutes “the real constitutional crisis” we’re facing right now. It’s a revealing moment: Trumpworld is building a case for ignoring judicial rulings because they know their agenda is now vulnerable to legal challenges on many different fronts. We talked to legal commentator Leah Litman, author of the book Lawless, about the prospects for stopping Trump in the courts, what happens if he defies them, and what’s likely coming in the next few months. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:45.9	This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.
0:48.2	I'm your host, Greg Sargent. President Donald Trump's agenda is suddenly facing a huge wave of lawsuits,
1:01.4	and his propagandists are very upset about that.
1:04.3	On Wednesday, White House press secretary Caroline Levitt unleashed a long, angry tirade about the courts,
1:10.7	claiming that the only constitutional
1:12.5	crisis we're facing right now is in the judicial branch. It's hard to say whether this is about
1:18.3	laying the groundwork to ignore judicial rulings or just working the judicial refs, but either
1:23.9	way it's an expression of weakness. They know their agenda is now vulnerable to legal
1:29.0	challenges on many different fronts. Today we're talking about all this with legal commentator
1:33.5	Leah Litman, author of the appropriately named book Lawless. Leah, thanks for coming on.
1:39.4	Thanks for having me. So here's White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt at the White House on Wednesday.
1:45.6	Now, before I take questions, I would like to address an extremely dishonest narrative that we've seen emerging over the past few days.
1:52.8	Many outlets in this room have been fearmongering the American people into believing there is a constitutional crisis taking place here at the White House. I've been hearing
2:02.2	those words a lot lately. But in fact, the real constitutional crisis is taking place within our
2:08.1	judicial branch, where district court judges and liberal districts across the country are abusing
2:13.9	their power to unilaterally block President Trump's basic executive authority.
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