Karoline Leavitt Called Out Over Ironic Pedophile Protector Comments

Source: The Daily Beast

Karoline Leavitt Called Out Over Ironic Pedophile Protector Comments

William Vaillancourt
Tue, January 13, 2026 at 12:13 AM EST
2 min read

Gavin Newsom was among the many critics of White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s wild assertion that Democrats are protecting pedophiles.

The California governor’s press office, in a post on X, responded to Leavitt’s comments Monday where she attacked Democrats for criticizing Immigration and Customs Enforcement. She also once again smeared Renee Nicole Good, the Minnesota woman shot and killed by an ICE agent last week under legally dubious circumstances.

Good was “a lunatic who was a part of a group, an organized group to interject and to impede on law enforcement organizations,” Leavitt, 28, asserted. “It’s disgusting what we have seen from the left, and I think it just shows you where the modern-day Democrat [sic] Party stands today, in protecting illegal alien pedophiles and rapists and murderers over law-abiding American citizens and our brave men and women who serve in law enforcement."

Newsom, 58, honed in on Leavitt’s line about pedophiles, reminding everyone that the Justice Department has only released a fraction of its files on Jeffrey Epstein, the dead sex offender who said he was once Trump’s closest friend, despite the legally mandated deadline of Dec. 19.

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