White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt pulled no punches in a fiery speech delivered to the reporters gathered for the White House Press Briefing on Tuesday, April 8, commenting during her speech on why President Trump is precipitously raising tariffs. Doing so, Leavitt exposed the hypocrisy of Democrats, as shown by a speech Nancy Pelosi gave in 1996 in which she called for tariffs of the sort that Trump is now implementing.

As background, in the 1996 speech, Rep. Pelosi commented on the massive trade deficit America had with China even then, and asked when the American government would get serious about challenging the status quo, something that President Trump is now finally doing.READ MORE