Leavitt claims killing a mother of three was necessary to stop a “larger, sinister left-wing movement”

Image: Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt / White House Press Conference

This video clip opens White House press secretary, the Mouth of Moron, Karoline Leavitt’s latest briefing.

The administration has now offered justification after justification. Leavitt proudly and boldly claims the killing was necessary to stop what she described as a “larger, sinister left-wing movement.” The phrase does not explain what threat the woman posed while backing her car out of her driveway. It does, however, reveal how easily an individual death can be folded into an imagined enemy narrative.

Leavitt advances several dangerous claims at once: that ICE should be treated as ordinary law enforcement, that there exists a vague and shadowy “left-wing” plot against officers, and that shooting civilians can be justified if it is rhetorically attached to that fiction. Vice President JD Vance has already encouraged ICE agents to push their limits, while President Donald Trump has offered demonstrably false stories about the danger those agents supposedly faced.

Together, the message is unmistakable. The administration will invent threats, rewrite facts, and excuse killings to keep its campaign of terror intact. And their most fervent supporters appear eager to accept any story that sanctifies violence and distracts from the rest of the grift.