Fox News Reporter Asks Karoline Leavitt About ‘Epstein Hoax’

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is probably used to tough questions from journalists.

But she seemed a little taken aback by one that she was asked on Thursday by Jacqui Heinrich of Fox News.

“There’s been a lot of discussion about the Epstein files and the president’s comments yesterday calling it a ‘hoax,‘” Heinrich noted before bluntly asking Leavitt to “clarify which part of the Epstein ‘hoax’ is the ‘hoax’ part?”

Leavitt’s response was more pointed than anything Trump has claimed himself, but could still be summed up as “Democrats are bad, m’kay?”

“The president is referring to the fact that Democrats have now seized on this as if they ever wanted transparency when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein, which is an asinine suggestion for any Democrat to make,” Leavitt began.

“The Democrats had control of this building, the White House, for four years, and they didn’t do a dang thing when it came to transparency in regards to Jeffrey Epstein and his heinous crimes,” she said.

Here’s a clip of the exchange.

Leavitt’s explanation wasn’t well-received on social media, however.