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Following Karoline Leavitt\u2019s announcement on Wednesday that she will be departing from her role as White House press secretary, one report suggests that the next person for the job could be a MAGA die-hard who frequently defends lies from President Donald Trump, even in the face of live fact-checks: CNN <\/em>contributor Scott Jennings.<\/p>\n

According to a report from The Daily Beast<\/em>, which cited sources with knowledge of the discussions on who could replace Leavitt, Jennings tops the list of would-be press secretaries for Trump. The pick would be a notable departure for the president, who hasn\u2019t had an older, male press secretary since Sean Spicer during his first term in 2017. <\/p>\n

Jennings, who regularly appears as a conservative panelist on CNN\u2019s <\/em>evening broadcasts, wouldn\u2019t be unfamiliar with working in the White House, as he previously served as deputy director of political affairs under former President George W. Bush. <\/p>\n

Asked about the possibility of his becoming the next press secretary on the cable news station Wednesday night, he avoided answering the question entirely, instead praising Leavitt as \u201cmaybe the greatest White House press secretary in the last 30 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leavitt has showcased extreme loyalty to Trump throughout her tenure, consistently parroting the president\u2019s lies to the American public.<\/p>\n

For example, Leavitt defended Trump in 2025 when he said he\u2019d \u201clove\u201d the idea of deporting currently incarcerated U.S. citizens to foreign prisons. The outgoing press secretary insisted that such an action was an option for the president to consider, if it is legal \u2014 which, of course, it is not.<\/p>\n

Leavitt has described reports on the U.S. bombing of a girls\u2019 elementary school in Iran, which killed dozens, as \u201cpropaganda,\u201d despite overwhelming evidence showing otherwise. She has also dismissed concerns from reporters about Trump canceling the midterms \u2014 even after he said, \u201cWhen you think of it, we shouldn\u2019t even have\u201d midterm elections.<\/p>\n

Jennings\u2019s admiration for Leavitt\u2019s work suggests that, if he does get the job, he may try to emulate her style of misleading the American people. Indeed, he\u2019s already demonstrated an ability to do just that, in his CNN <\/em>appearances and elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Jennings has claimed to have had direct conversations with Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky), despite the senator not making any public appearances since a health event in June. McConnell\u2019s long absence (and lack of audio or visual proof of his cognitive state) has led to questions about whether he\u2019s fit to serve out the remainder of his term. <\/p>\n

Jennings, who used to be a staffer for McConnell, was asked by reporters on Tuesday whether the senator should put out a video statement. Rather than responding to the reporters, Jennings ignored them and walked away.<\/p>\n

The stalwart MAGA supporter has directly misled his viewers, too. During his program earlier this week, Jennings shared a video that supercut statements by progressive commentator and activist Hasan Piker, attempting to tie his words to Democratic U.S. Senate candidate for Michigan Abdul El-Sayed.<\/p>\n

In the supercut, Jennings spliced together multiple comments from Piker that made it appear that he was racist against Black people. The edited footage included Piker saying we should \u201cgo back to a better time\u201d when Black people were being lynched. In truth, Piker was being sarcastic in his remarks, ridiculing conservatives (including the \u201cMake America Great Again\u201d movement) who frequently say that America was better in the past.<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou got me! You got me because I am a racist person,\u201d Piker said in the mashup of clips, also a sarcastic response. <\/p>\n

Pointing out that Piker has campaigned alongside El-Sayed, Jennings used the clips to suggest that Black voters in Michigan and elsewhere should support Republicans instead.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery Black voter in this country needs to listen to this. \u2026 Might these Black voters find a home in the Republican Party this fall?\u201d Jennings quipped. <\/p>\n

In response to Jennings\u2019s supercut of him, Piker suggested that he might sue the conservative talking head. As he explained on his August 12 Twitch stream, Piker said:<\/p>\n

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I don\u2019t know what opportunities we have for litigation, but it is one of the grossest [out-of-context clip compilations] I have ever seen. I\u2019ll look at what options are available to me. \u2026 I think this is consequential. This is clear-cut defamation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Jennings is frequently fact-checked in real time during his appearances on CNN<\/em>. <\/p>\n

During a panel discussion in late May regarding weight and height requirements for military members attending the Ultimate Fighting Championship event at the White House that month, Jennings disputed that the restrictions were real, citing a conversation he had with someone in the administration.<\/p>\n

\u201cI asked the White House point-blank, \u2018Is this true? And I was told, quote, \u2018Fake news from The Washington Post<\/em>,’\u201d Jennings said, adding, \u201cthere are no restrictions.\u201d<\/p>\n

CNN <\/em>anchor Kaitlan Collins called Jennings out for that statement. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere is literally a memo that said ticket recipients are required to meet the Department of War waist to height ratio standard of less than .55 as well as all service-specific physical fitness test requirements,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

In early March, Jennings also asked a panel on the network to \u201cgive me one example\u201d of how Trump had been contradictory in the first few days of the war on Iran. CNN <\/em>political analyst Josh Rogin responded by citing multiple instances of that happening.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Trump] said we want regime change, [then] we don\u2019t want regime change. He said we know the people that were going to replace the ayatollah, then he said, we killed the people who are going to replace the ayatollah, so we don\u2019t know them. He said, we want the people of Iran to rise up and free themselves and fight the regime, and then he said, we\u2019re happy to work with the regime remnants, if somebody emerges. He said [the war] could be over in two days to four weeks,\u201d Rogin noted. \u201cHe literally said every single option \u2014 it\u2019s a total mess.\u201d<\/p>\n

But for Trump \u2014 whose lies to the public number in the tens of thousands \u2014 Jennings\u2019s willingness to mislead Americans might be the very factor making the right-wing media personality a frontrunner for the role. <\/p>\n

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