{"id":247622,"date":"2026-01-16T09:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T09:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/247622\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T09:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T09:42:07","slug":"leavitt-calls-irish-journalist-left-wing-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/247622\/","title":{"rendered":"Leavitt calls Irish journalist ‘left-wing hack’"},"content":{"rendered":"

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt called an Irish journalist a “left-wing hack” during a heated exchange at a press briefing yesterday.<\/p>\n

Niall Stanage, who works for US political newspaper The Hill, asked a question about the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent on 7 January.<\/p>\n

When asked for his assessment of the incident, Mr Stanage described the ICE officers’ actions as “reckless,” prompting a sharp response from the press secretary.<\/p>\n

“You’re a biased reporter with a left-wing opinion,” Ms Leavitt said, accusing Mr Stanage and much of the American media of biased coverage on immigration enforcement issues.<\/p>\n

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\nNiall Stanage had asked a question about the fatal shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis<\/p>\n

When Mr Stanage mentioned that 32 people had died in ICE custody in 2025, Ms Leavitt responded by questioning his credentials as a journalist.<\/p>\n

“You’re not a reporter, you’re posing in this room as a journalist,” she said. “You’re pretending like you’re a journalist but you’re a left-wing activist.”<\/p>\n

“Yeah, because you’re a left-wing hack, you’re not a reporter, you’re posing in this room as a journalist and it’s so clear by the premise of your question.<\/p>\n

“And you and the people in the media who have such biases but fake like you’re a journalist, you shouldn’t even be sitting in that seat. But you’re pretending like you’re a journalist but you’re a left-wing activist,” she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt called an Irish journalist a “left-wing hack” during a heated exchange at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-247622","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}