White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt will brief members of the media this afternoon for the first time since President Trump ordered strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
President Trump returned to the United States on Wednesday after participating in the NATO Summit in The Hague, Netherlands.
During the summit, the President spoke and held bilateral meetings with multiple foreign leaders. Notably, Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for the first time since their explosive White House meeting in April.
Trump later signaled that he would be providing more Patriot missiles to assist Ukraine in their war with Russia.
The trip came after he negotiated a ceasefire between Israel and Iran in the aftermath of U.S. strikes on Iran. Still, both countries exchanged rockets immediately after the ceasefire was agreed to, sparking concern that the war would continue.
While departing the White House on Tuesday en route to NATO, the President spoke to the press about the ceasefire negotiations and slammed both countries for violating the agreement.
“We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the f*ck they’re doing!” the President told reporters before boarding his flight to the Netherlands. “as soon as I get away from you, I’m going to see if I can stop it,” he said.
The ceasefire, although fragile, is holding, and Trump has reportedly said U.S. and Iranian officials will meet next week.
Leavitt is expected to discuss the potential U.S.-Iran meetings and last weekend’s attack on Iran.
She will also likely be pressed by reporters on media reports that Iran’s nuclear sites are ‘largely intact’ and the U.S. strikes only set them back a few months.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, a ‘Top Secret’ Intelligence assessment about the strikes on Iranian nuclear sites was leaked to CNN, and CNN disclosed it on live TV on Tuesday. Leavitt told reporters on Wednesday that “the FBI is investigating the source of the leak and that the leaker “should go to jail.”
The briefing is scheduled to begin at 1 pm ET.
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