‘Leave it to the leftist media’: Karoline Leavitt says press hopes Obama monkey video will distract public

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Friday accused left-leaning media outlets of fixating on a deleted social media post while ignoring what she described as major economic developments under President Donald Trump.

After a backlash, Trump deleted a late-Thursday social media video that depicted former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes. The White House said around noon Friday that the post had been removed. Leavitt addressed the video on “The...