Right here. Your nephew, Karoline.
Tokyo Rose Garden won’t bat an eye. Nevertheless (Daily Beast):
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been personally linked to the brutal ICE raids sweeping America.
Her 11-year-old nephew’s mother, Bruna Ferreira, is now in custody at an ICE facility at Louisiana, facing deportation to Brazil.
Michael Leavitt, the press secretary’s New Hampshire-based brother, had a relationship with Ferreira, resulting in the birth of son Michael Leavitt Jnr.
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A source familiar to the matter told the Daily Beast that “This individual is the mother of Karoline’s nephew and they have not spoken in many years. The child has lived full time in New Hampshire with his father since he was born. He has never resided with his mother.”
The statement about the child never residing with his mother “since he was born” is contradicted by a 2014 North Andover Eagle-Tribune story on Michael Leavitt’s winning $1 million on Draft Kings. The three shared a condo in Atkinson, Mass New Hampshire. Daily Beast reported that but failed to note that it contradicted their “source” (White House? DHS?) quoted earlier.
WBUR:
WBUR could not immediately confirm whether the boy only lived with his father after the couple separated. The split happened about 10 years ago, according to a family member.
Karoline Leavitt declined to comment on the arrest. The administration official said, “Karoline had no involvement whatsoever in this matter.”
Well, that’s not surprising.
DHS spokesliar Tricia McLaughlin claims Ferreira has a previous arrest for battery. However, WBUR could find no battery charges in Massachusetts’ online court records.
That’s not surprising either.
“Bruna has no criminal record whatsoever, I don’t know where that is coming from. Show us the proof,” said Todd Pomerleau, an attorney for Ferreira (ABC News):
Pomerleau also said Ferreira entered the country lawfully, previously held DACA status and is currently in the process of obtaining a green card. He said his client was arrested in her car in Massachusetts after being stopped with no warrant, adding that he now has to litigate her case in Louisiana thousands of miles away from her home. Pomerleau said he did not believe that his client’s connection to Karoline Leavitt could affect the case, adding that he believes it’s just “happenstance.”
Another brown person stopped and arrested at random that DHS must now redfine as a dangerous criminal to support its “worst of the worst” narrative.
Update 2: Corrected state above. Atkinson is in New. (h/t HH for catching that.)
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