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- White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt resigned this week.
- On Jan. 15, 2026, Leavitt told columnist Niall Stanage (The Hill) that 32 died in ICE custody.
- Leavitt refused to link the deaths to ICE actions and called Stanage a “left-wing hack.”
- She demanded statistics on American citizens killed by illegal aliens without providing data herself.
- Analysts said U.S. President Donald Trump’s priority on lying renders the press secretary role redundant.
