CNN shuts down Trump press secretary for attacking Jake Tapper

CNN host Kasie Hunt abruptly ended an interview with Donald Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Monday morning after she repeatedly bashed Hunt’s colleague Jake Tapper.

With three days to go until the first presidential debate, Hunt asked Leavitt how the Republican was preparing for his showdown with President Joe Biden.

Leavitt accused Biden of ‘hiding away’ while Trump was preparing to ‘go into a hostile environment on this very network with debate moderators who have made their opinions about him very well known over the past eight years.’

She said Tapper and debate co-moderator Dana Bash are ‘biased’, prompting Hunt to jump in and insist they were ‘professional’.

Leavitt went on: ‘Well, first of all, it takes someone five minutes to Google Jake Tapper, Donald Trump to see that Jake Tapper…’

Hunt cut her off and ended the interview.’

Kristi Noem, once a favorite to be Donald Trump’s running mate, reveals she has not received vetting paperwork.

the South Dakota governor said: ‘I haven’t received any paperwork. I’ve had conversations with the president, and I know that he is the only one who will be making the decisions on who will be his vice president.’

Those who have reportedly received such paperwork include North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, Senator Marco Rubio, Senator Tim Scott, and Senator JD Vance.

Noem received a barrage of criticism recently when she revealed in her memoir that she shot her family’s 14-month old hunting dog.

Dana White, president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, confirms Donald Trump did suggest a migrant fighting league, but the former president was joking.

White said:

It was a joke. I saw everyone going crazy online. But yeah he did say it.’

Trump, speaking this weekend at the gathering of the Faith & Freedom Coalition, described migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border as ‘tough’.

Trump said he told his friend White: ‘Why don’t you set up a migrant league and have your regular league of fighters. And then you have the champion of your league, these are the greatest fighters in the world, fighting the champion of the migrants.

‘I think the migrant guy might win, that’s how tough they are. He (White) didn’t like that idea too much.’

The Supreme Court agreed to hear a case regarding health care for transgender kids under the age of 18.

There are about 20 states nationwide who have passed laws that limit ‘gender-affirming’ treatments or surgeries on minors.

Republican-led state Tennessee’s law specifically blocks kids from getting sex surgery or hormone therapy.

Oral arguments in the case is expected during the court’s next term, which begins in the fall.

The Kremlin accused the U.S. of ‘killing Russian children’ after a Ukrainian attack on occupied Crimea with long-range ATACMS missiles supplied by Washington.

Moscow issued a formal warning to the U.S. ambassador, and Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov issued a biting public comment calling the strike ‘barbaric.’

‘You should ask my colleagues in Europe, and above all in Washington, the press secretaries, why their governments are killing Russian children. Just ask them this question,’ Peskov told reporters.

The attack in Sevastopol killed at least four people, including two children. Russia blamed the U.S. and said 150 were injured. Video shows people fleeing from falling shrapnel after Russian air defense intercepted the missiles. Russia seized Crimea in 2014, and Ukraine has launched a series of drone attacks at Russian naval assets and the Black Sea port since Russia’s 2022 invasion. The ATACMs, long sought by Kiev, provide a longer range than missiles previously supplied by the U.S.

In a new district and despite being swamped in controversy, Rep. Lauren Boebert is still poised to sail to victory in a crowded primary on Tuesday.

The fiery Colorado Republican switched from the 3rd to the 4th congressional district to run in former Rep. Ken Buck’s more reliably Republican seat in the upcoming election.

Still, she will face off against state Reps. Mike Lynch and Richard Holtorf, conservative activist and talk radio host Deborah Flora, Logan County Commissioner and former state Senate President Pro Tempore Jerry Sonnenberg and banking executive Peter Yu.

Recent polls show she has a comfortable lead against her rivals, but a large number of voters are still undecided and could make the race a far closer contest.

The Colorado residents who haven’t made their choice – and may pay more attention to the controversies surrounding her – could be crucial to her survival in Congress.

Here’s a look back at some of Boebert’s biggest scandals she heads into her vital primary:

From Emily Goodin, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Donald Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt fired back at CNN for cutting her off mid-interview.

Host Kaisie Hunt abruptly took her off the air for constantly attacking colleagues and Thursday’s debate moderators Jake Tapper and Dana Bash.

In a statement to DailyMail.com, Leavitt said:

CNN cutting off my microphone for bringing up a debate moderator’s history of anti-Trump lies just proves our point that President Trump will not be treated fairly in Thursday’s debate. Yet President Trump is still willing to go into this 3-1 fight to bring his winning message to the American people, and he will win.

Dr. Anthony Fauci is still getting a taxpayer-funded security detail and SUV, despite retiring from his $480,000-a-year government job 18 months ago.

Now a top Republican has accused the former White House COVID advisor of trying to get ‘sympathy’ by claiming extremists want to kill him and he is the target of death threats.

During the publicity tour to promote his new book, 83-year-old Fauci recently said he is scared ‘deep down, that there’s a possibility that somebody’s gonna kill me.’

But that is just a strategy to ‘develop empathy and sympathy’ and paint ‘Republicans as creating this danger,’ Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., told DailyMail.com in an exclusive interview.

Fauci, who has an estimated $11 million net worth, is constantly surrounded by US Marshals whether he is at home or going to TV studios to film interviews.

Over the weekend he was spotted arriving back at his home in the Washington D.C. area in workout gear after getting out of a black government SUV.

President Joe Biden used the second anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling in the Dobbs case to blast rival Donald Trump.

‘Two years ago today, Donald Trump’s Supreme Court majority ripped away the fundamental freedom for women to access the health care they need and deserve,’ he said of the case the overturned abortion rights in America.

‘Donald Trump is the sole person responsible for this nightmare,’ he added.

Democrats are using the abortion issue to rally their base to the polls and to woo women voters – a group that helped elect Biden to the White House in 2020. Reproductive rights proved a successful issue for the party in the 2022 midterm election where Democrats performed better than expected.

But Biden won’t be marking the day with a big public event. He’ll leave that to other principals in his administration.

The president is spending the day at Camp David preparing for Thursday night’s debate. But first lady Jill Biden is in Pennsylvania, Vice President Kamala Harris heads to Arizona and second gentleman Doug Emhoff is in Michigan where they are all expected to address reproductive rights.

The former president revealed he has picked who will run as vice president on the Republican ticket in November, but that the individual he decided on doesn’t even know yet.

Reporters asked Trump ahead of his rally in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Saturday whether he had settled on a running mate with just over four months until the election.

‘In my mind, yeah,’ Trump replied.

When asked if he had yet informed the individual they are his choice for VP, Trump said: ‘No, nobody knows.’

While 38 percent of Hispanic voters in these swing states trust Biden to handle immigration, 41 percent of the same voting bloc trust Trump more.

Much has been made about why Hispanics, who many times are first, second or third generation American citizens, are upset with how the immigration system has become more lax in recent years.

Interviews with Hispanic and Latino voters reveal they feel disenfranchised by Democrats who are trying to make it easier for migrants to gain access into the country and be released without legal status.

The Biden campaign is planning 1,600 events and running a slew of new TV and digital ads ahead of Thursday’s presidential debate.

Biden’s allies are calling the showdown with Donald Trump ‘one of the first moments … where a larger slice of the American electorate” will tune in to the campaign,’ according to the memo obtained by NBC News.

The 2024 team will also turn to Gen Z influencers and social media content creators, who will be invited into the post-debate spin room.

The events begin on Monday to mark the second anniversary of Roe v. Wade being overturned.

Welcome to DailyMail.com’s U.S. politics blog, with three days until the first presidential debate between President Joe Biden and Donald Trump.

Biden is holed up in Camp David preparing for the showdown while Trump stayed on the campaign trail over the weekend.

Trump’s lawyers are back in a Florida federal court in the classified documents case to argue the appointment of Special Counsel Jack Smith was illegal.

Meanwhile, the Biden campaign has laid out its strategy for the week leading up to him taking the stage with his 2024 rival.