“There is no greater advocate for a free and fair press than Donald Trump,” she said on Fox News on Tuesday. “During his first term as the president, he was the most transparent president in American history. That continued on the campaign trail.”
In the same breath, Leavitt claimed Trump “exposed the media for being incredibly hostile and fake.”
Trump has also failed the transparency test, refusing to release his tax returns, as all other modern presidential candidates have done, and failing to provide details about his health, as other presidents and presidential candidates have done.
Given that history, Trump’s critics weren’t buying Leavitt’s claim: