White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt defended President Donald Trump’s latest attack on a female reporter who had asked him an honest question he didn’t want to answer.

“What did the president mean when he called a reporter ‘piggy?’” one journalist asked Leavitt during Thursday’s White House press briefing.

But he also is the most transparent president in history, and he gives all of you in this room, as you all know, unprecedented access. You are in the Oval Office almost every day asking the president questions. And so I think the president being frank and open and honest to your faces, rather than hiding behind your backs, is frankly a lot more respectful than what you saw in the last administration, where you had a president who lied to your face and then didn't speak to you

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