Karoline Leavitt Tees Up A ‘Harsh Truth’ At GOP Convention And It Immediately Backfires

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Karoline Leavitt, who left her role as White House press secretary last month, told a Republican midterm convention crowd in Dallas that 'here's another harsh truth for you: I like to speak the truth,' after opening her speech with an attack on the media she used to spar with daily.

Critics online piled on immediately, with one commenter saying they laughed out loud and another calling it a first for her. HuffPost noted the line landed alongside her broader claim that Democrats would 'kill the American dream.'

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Announcing that you like to tell the truth is a little like a man telling you his handshake is good before he shakes your hand. Most people just go ahead and do the thing and let you decide. Standing at a podium in Dallas saying it out loud does not make it so, and the internet noticed faster than the room did.

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