WATCH | Karoline Leavitt blasts journalist over ICE's killing of Renee Good, calls him 'left wing hack'

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt slammed a journalist after he asked about the recent US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conduct, specifically about the Minnesota shooting. During a White House press briefing on Thursday, a journalist asked Leavitt about remarks made by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem after an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good last week.

Niall Stanage, a White House columnist for The Hill, questioned assertions from Noem and other members of the Trump administration that ICE is going ’everything correctly’. “32 people died in ICE custody last year, 170 US citizens were detained by ICE, and Renee Good was shot in the head and killed by an ICE agent,” Stanage said. “How is that doing everything correctly?” he asked.

Before responding, Leavitt went on to pose a counter question to Stanage, asking why Good was killed, to which he replied that an ICE agent acted recklessly and killed her unjustifiably. Hearing this, the White House press secretary then launched a minute-long tirade against Stanage.

“Oh, OK, so you’re a biased reporter with a left-wing opinion,” she said. “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.” “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,” she added.

‘Left-wing hack’

Leavitt went on to call Strange a ’left-wing hack,’ pretending to be a journalist. She insisted that ICE agents work to make the nation safer. She also suggested that Stanage focus on innocent Americans killed by ‘illegal aliens’ in the US.

“Shame on you people in the media who have a crooked view, a biased view, and pretend you’re an honest journalist,” Leavitt concluded.

During the presser, she also dodged a question posed by a journalist from The Independent about a recent joke from President Donald Trump about cancelling elections. While speaking to Reuters this week, Trump said that they shouldn’t even bother with mid-term elections in 2026, although at that time the White House insisted he was joking.