White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is stepping down from her role at the end of the month roughly four months after the birth of her second child.
Leavitt “will be departing her role at the end of the month so she can spend more time with her beautiful young children and family, a decision I totally understand and respect,” President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social on Wednesday.
She will be one of the president’s “top outside advisors,” he added, “and an influential voice within the Republican Party, as we work to defy History, and conclusively win the Midterm Elections.”
Her departure was announced one day after the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel issued a stunning memo arguing that the president could claim executive privilege over communication between him and his “private advisers” if those conversations were considered confidential and related to his presidential “decisionmaking.”
This is a developing story
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/karoline-leavitt-out-white-house-press-secretary-quits-b3032120.html