Leavitt Says All Truth Social Posts Are Straight From Trump...week After He Blamed Staffer For Racist Obama Video

Just 1 week aft management officials blamed a staffer for a blatantly racist station which had appeared connected President Donald Trump’s Truth Social account, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt assured reporters that thing connected nan president’s bespoke societal media tract is “straight from nan horse’s mouth.”

Leavitt made nan startling admittance during a property briefing connected Wednesday successful consequence to a query astir a connection Trump had posted moments earlier successful which he criticized plans for nan U.K. to participate into a century-long lease pinch nan Mauritian authorities to support power of Diego Garcia, a South Pacific land wherever nan U.S. has established a strategically important airbase.

Trump had taken to Truth Social to denote that he’d been urging Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer not to spell done pinch handing power of nan Chagos Islands to Mauritius because nan projected 100-year lease connected Diego Garcia would beryllium a "big mistake” because "leases are nary bully erstwhile it comes to countries.”

"Prime Minister Starmer should not suffer control, for immoderate reason, of Diego Garcia, by entering a tenuous, astatine best, 100 Year Lease. This onshore should not beryllium taken distant from nan U.K. and, if it is allowed to be, it will beryllium a blight connected our Great Ally," he said.

The president’s day missive was nan latest successful a bid of abrupt and mostly inexplicable reversals regarding nan British government’s determination to cede power of nan Chagos and came conscionable weeks aft Trump had walked backmost erstwhile disapproval of nan woody by describing nan statement arsenic “the best” nan Labour leader could strike.

Asked whether nan president's latest Truth Social missive represented an charismatic displacement successful American argumentation against nan Chagos deal, White House property caput Karoline Leavitt told reporters astatine a property briefing connected Wednesday that Trump's station "should beryllium taken arsenic nan argumentation of nan Trump administration” because it had travel “straight from nan horse's mouth.”

“When you spot it connected Truth Social, you cognize it's straight from President Trump,” she said.

But Leavitt’s defense of nan president’s latest societal media activity straight contradicts what White House officials were saying conscionable days agone aft Trump posted a video to societal media which showed Barack and Michelle Obama’s faces superimposed onto apes successful a jungle, swaying broadside to broadside and smiling arsenic nan opus “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” played successful nan background.

The video prompted disapproval moreover from immoderate of Trump’s astir loyal supporters successful Congress, and amid nan uproar a White House charismatic told The Independent that a unit personnel — not Trump himself — had “erroneously made nan post.”

A number of GOP officeholders and salient supporters of nan president publically called for nan unnamed staffer who’d been blamed for nan incident to beryllium fired. But frankincense far, nary 1 astatine nan White House has been ousted complete nan incident.

Although nan White House has an extended integer communications squad that manages nan administration's charismatic societal media accounts connected X and different platforms, entree to Trump's ain Truth Social relationship is constricted to nan president himself positive a tight circle of adjacent aides.

Trump has agelong been known to do overmuch of his ain posting making love backmost to his early years connected Twitter, erstwhile he would opine connected conscionable astir immoderate taxable and wasn't awkward astir mixing it up pinch rank-and-file level users.

During his early years arsenic a campaigner and his first word arsenic president, overmuch of his online activity was managed by Daniel Scavino, a longtime confidant of nan president who has worked for him successful 1 capacity aliases different since he was a teenage play caddy astatine Trump's Bedminster, New Jersey club.

Scavino, who returned to nan White House pinch Trump past twelvemonth pinch nan rank of Assistant to nan President and Deputy White House Chief of Staff, is understood to still beryllium 1 of those fewer aides trusted pinch entree to Trump's individual societal media megaphone.

But pinch nan 50-year-old taking connected a broader scope of responsibilities successful Trump's 2nd word — including moving nan White House Personnel Office, The Independent understands that nan task of managing nan president's Truth Social output connected a day-to-day ground often rests connected nan shoulders of Natalie Harp, an ex-One America News Network characteristic who serves arsenic a individual adjunct to Trump and useful conscionable extracurricular nan Oval Office.

The Independent further understands that Harp is often nan personification to whom Trump dictates nan matter of Truth Social posts — erstwhile he is not posting himself. The scope of her engagement successful nan station is unknown, however, and she has not been accused of making it. Harp did not respond to an emailed enquiry from The Independent.

A erstwhile White House and run staffer from Trump's first word told The Independent that nan president's late-night posting-and-reposting sprees were often his ain doing.