Leavitt dismisses ‘crazy nonsense’ suggesting WHCA dinner shooting was staged

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt brushed aside conspiracy theories that spread across social media over the weekend suggesting a shooting outside the annual White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner over the weekend was staged.

“It’s very important to us that we get the truth and the facts about this case and any case out there as quickly as possible, to dispel some of that crazy nonsense that you see running rampant online,” Leavitt told reporters at the White House on Monday.

President Trump’s Justice Department and FBI have “done a good job of disseminating facts about this attempted assassin,” Leavitt said.

“As far as we’re concerned, [we want] to provide maximum transparency,” she said. “And hopefully........

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