{"id":822938,"date":"2026-08-23T07:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T07:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/822938\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T07:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T07:56:11","slug":"karoline-leavitt-announces-powerful-post-white-house-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/822938\/","title":{"rendered":"Karoline Leavitt Announces Powerful Post-White House Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cKaroline will now be one of my top outside advisors, and an influential voice within the Republican Party,\u201d President Donald <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/trump\/\" id=\"auto-tag_trump\" data-tag=\"trump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump<\/a> said in a statement earlier this week announcing the departure of White House Press Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/karoline-leavitt\/\" id=\"auto-tag_karoline-leavitt\" data-tag=\"karoline-leavitt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Karoline Leavitt<\/a>. Turns out, he was right.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLeavitt told reporters on Friday that she is returning to work for Trump\u2019s super PAC, MAGA Inc. She was the spokesperson for the PAC before joining\u00a0the Trump campaign. Reporting last month from Politico put the organization\u2019s war chest at $350M.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWhen she announced her departure, Leavitt indicated her tenure would end with the month of August. On Friday, she confirmed to reporters aboard Air Force One that their trip that day to Myrtle Beach for a campaign rally would be her last as press secretary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tShe also indicated that she would join Trump for the Republican Convention in September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cYou guys will still see me all the time,\u201d she told reporters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCommenting on her departure earlier this week, Leavitt said her recent maternity leave left her with a new perspective.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cThe truth is since returning to the White House after the birth of my daughter, I have felt in my heart that I cannot be the best mom my two young children deserve while devoting the constant time, energy, and attention required of the White House Press Secretary \u2014 and that is why I have ultimately made the bittersweet decision to depart the White House and embark on a new chapter in my life,\u201d wrote Leavitt on X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tNo successor has been named. When she was on maternity leave, various administration figures including Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent led the briefings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cKaroline will now be one of my top outside advisors, and an influential voice within the Republican Party,\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":822939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,14127,17153,3,3479,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-822938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-gop","tag-karoline-leavitt","tag-news","tag-trump","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=822938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/822939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}