Watch Trump's press secretary get shut down on air over hurricane lies

Karoline Leavitt, the national press secretary for Donald Trump’s campaign, appeared on CNN on Wednesday to do what Trump press secretaries do: misinform the public. This time, it was about the federal response to Hurricanes Helene and Milton. However, host Kate Bolduan was not having it.

"The former president has said that [Federal Emergency Management Agency] funds were stolen to be used to house illegal migrants, that no one from FEMA was on the ground in North Carolina, that funds were being withheld from Republican areas of the state on purpose,” Bolduan said at the outset of the interview. “None of that is true. … Is the former president going to stop saying this?"

Trump and others’ claims have been debunked repeatedly, and Leavitt’s replied with one disinformation talking point after another. But Bolduan cut her off, pointing out that Trump’s claim about President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris using disaster-relief funds to house migrants was “not true.”

“There's no disaster-relief-fund money that was going to house migrants,” Bolduan said.

"I don't think the American people care which pocket the money came from,” Leavitt said, ignoring that the “pocket” was the crux of the question—and Trump’s lie.