A political analyst called out a striking contradiction that President Donald Trump's chief spokesperson made during an interview on Fox News.
David Pakman, host of "The David Pakman Show" on YouTube, said in a recent video that Karoline Leavitt "immediately imploded" during her appearance on Fox News's "Fox & Friends" on Monday. He noted that Leavitt had a hard time explaining how the ceasefire brokered between the U.S. and Iran is going, and offered a contradiction that left him taken aback.
"So, as far as we're concerned, we're holding up our end of the ceasefire, but violence will be met with violence," Leavitt told host Brian Kilmeade. "As you mentioned ... there were attacks on commercial vessels that the United States of America, directed by the president, responded to ..."
Pakman described Leavitt's comments as "quite a contradiction."
"That is a very conditional ceasefire," he said. Now, I'm not suggesting that what we need to be doing is looking away and going, 'We will never defend ourselves.' Of course, that's not what I'm saying. But when you've already failed to end this thing 40 times and every time it looks like negotiations are starting, Donald Trump goes, 'But we'll also destroy the country if we need to.'
Why are we pouring gasoline on the fire?"