WASHINGTON DC – Donald Trump’s determination to bring the BBC to heel has put a fresh focus on one of his most loyal and visible supporters: White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, who last week dismissed the UK’s public broadcaster as “100% fake news” .

Leavitt, 28, is the youngest person ever to preside over the White House briefing room, one of the highest-profile positions in American politics. And there is seemingly no one in the Trump administration more slavishly loyal to her boss’s’ Make America Great Again agenda, nor better able to communicate its aims and ambitions.

So young is Leavitt that during Trump’s first term in office, she was still at university, graduating in 2019 with a degree in communications and political science from St. Anselm College, a small lib

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