“Ruthless” podcast Co-host John Ashbrook made a large splash at the press conference of the White House of Friday as a member of the “new media” who welcomed the Trump government in the annoyance of some reporters.
White House Pers Secretary Karoline Leavitt started the briefing by revealing that President Trump’s press office had received “more than 10,000” applications for the recently announced “new media chairs”, “, Reserved for “independent journalists, podcasters, influencers of social media and makers of content.”
She then rolled out the red carpet for Ashbook to ask the first question of the day to the new media chair. He took the opportunity to ask if the Legacy Media is “out of contact” with the American people.
“In your first briefing, the media went after this administration to deport illegal immigrants that they claimed were not criminals,” Ashbrook began. “The question is, do you think they don’t have contact with Americans who demand action on our border crisis?”
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“Ruthless” Podcast Co-host John Ashbrook asked the first question as a member of the “New Media” in the White House Press Briefing on Friday 31 January 2025. (Screenshot/White House)
“The media from Ouch?” Leavitt responded with a smile. “I think media certainly don’t have contact and I think that has been proven by a number of things, John.”
Leavitt continued to point to a poll from the New York Times who had “83%” of the Americans supported the deportations of violent criminal illegal immigrants, and added that “97%” of the deportations that the Trump government had so far Executed, from the previous administration of the previous administration. , according to ice.
Ashbook, a former campaign strategist by Senator Mitch McConnell, R-KY, raises light on what it was like to be in the briefing room during a appearance on “The Will Cain Show” that afternoon.
“I used to interact with many of the same reporters,” said Ashbrook Fox News “Will Cain.
Josh Holmes, comfortable self-satisfied, Michael Duncan and John Ashbrook Co-host the popular conservative “ruthless” podcast. (Joseph A. Wulfsohn/Fox News Digital)
“With the ruthless Variety program we do not take ourselves too seriously. We love pleasure and provide information in a humorous way … I hoped to have a bit of a lighter moment there and I think we had it.”
The “ruthless” co-gastheer praised the embrace of the White House of “New Media”, saying that Leavitt and her team ensure that “we have a voice in that room.”
“It’s a brand new day in the media,” he added.
“Ruthless” podcast co-host John Ashbrook told Fox News “Will Cain that other reporters” eye rolls “and” smirks “had him in the briefing room of the White House. (Fox News Channel)
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“When Elon Musk stated:” You are now the media, “the ruthless podcast took it to heart. It was a genius of this White House to include more voices in the briefing space,” Ashbrook said Fox News Digital. “Another way in which President Trump keeps his promise to change Washington, and a huge opportunity before we have the people to have a voice in our government.”
