Karoline Leavitt quits job as White House press secretary, Trump announces

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is stepping down from her role at the end of August, roughly four months after the birth of her second child.Leavitt “will be departing her role at the end of the month so she can spend more time with her beautiful young children and family, a decision I totally understand and respect,” President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social on Wednesday.She will be one of the president’s “top outside advisors,” he added, “and an influential voice within the Republican Party, as we work to defy History, and conclusively win the Midterm Elections.”Leavitt, 28, called her time in the role the “honor and adventure of a lifetime.”In a lengthy statement on X, Leavitt claimed the U.S. is facing “existential threat from an increasingly extremist Democrat Party th