The moment those words hit the air, the room turned. Leavitt’s head snapped toward the NBC reporter. The press corps froze. Even seasoned journalists exchanged glances. But Leavitt didn’t miss a beat.
“What’s not true?” she asked, calmly but sharply. “That video,” Alcindor insisted, voice rising. “It didn’t show what the president claimed it showed. There were no burial sites. The entire narrative—”
“It showed crosses,” Leavitt interjected. “Crosses marking deaths. Real people. Real farmers—murdered and politically targeted because of their skin color.”
What followed wasn’t just a debate. It was a demolition. Leavitt, refusing to yield, took control of the room. She laid out the administration’s stance with surgical precision, each sentence hitting harder than the last.
Her clarity and composure rivaled that of a seasoned legal expert defending a high-profile case—something any top medical malpractice lawyer or birth injury attorney would recognize as masterful under pressure.
