Tea at Trianon: SHOWDOWN: Karoline Leavitt SHATTERS the Media’s Lies

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Wednesday, August 20, 2025

SHOWDOWN: Karoline Leavitt SHATTERS the Media’s Lies

From Overton News:

Next up was Shawn McCreesh from The New York Times.
McCreesh, who writes ENDLESS hit pieces attacking the president for every move he makes, tried to stir up more doubt…but this time, Leavitt didn’t let it slide.
He questioned Trump’s strategy for brokering peace...because journalists are much better at diplomacy than the president of the United States.
McCreesh:
“If the point is to get anybody on the same page, why wouldn’t Trump just take the call from Putin while the other leaders were in the room? He said it would be ‘disrespectful’ to that, but why is that disrespectful?”
Leavitt had him pegged from the moment he opened his mouth.
“With all due respect, only a reporter from ‘The New York Times’ would ask a question like that, Shaun.”
It was a haymaker…and he knew it.
But Leavitt continued by giving McCreesh a quick lesson in how diplomacy actually works:
“The president met with all these European leaders at the White House 48 hours after sitting down with President Putin on American soil.”
“In fact, there was so much progress in the readout given to these European leaders immediately following his meeting with President Putin that every single one of them got on a plane 48 hours later and flew to the United States of America.”
“These leaders, who this war is in the backyard, are very grateful that the president took that call, and that he was there to provide them with a readout of Russia’s thinking on this.”
“Something that was not done by the previous administration at all.”
Masterclass. (Read more.)