Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Briefs Members of the Media, June 11, 2025

June 11, 2025 · The White House · 0:26:10

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What happened

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt briefed members of the media on June 11, 2025, carried on the White House channel, leading with the Los Angeles unrest that followed the June 6 immigration enforcement actions. “What we have seen transpire in Los Angeles, California, in recent days is shameful. Left-wing radicals waving foreign flags viciously attacked ICE and Border Patrol agents as well as Los Angeles police officers,” she said, describing vehicles burned, freeways shut down, and Molotov cocktails thrown, as she stated the account.

“President Trump will never allow mob rule to prevail in America,” Leavitt said. “That’s why President Trump deployed the National Guard and mobilized Marines to end the chaos and restore law and order. The mob violence is being stomped out. The criminals responsible will be swiftly brought to justice. And the Trump administration’s operations to arrest illegal aliens are continuing unabated,” as she stated the response. She directed attributed criticism at Governor Gavin Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass, saying they had “shamefully failed to meet their sworn obligations to their citizens,” as she characterized their record.

Why it matters

This briefing is the White House’s formal case for the Los Angeles deployment — the federal law-and-order rationale, the criticism of California’s elected leaders attributed to the Press Secretary, and the pledge that enforcement would continue, stated on the record at the podium.

Scoreboard watch

This briefing is a scoreboard reference point: the Press Secretary’s June 11, 2025 statements on the National Guard deployment and Marine mobilization to Los Angeles, each as she stated them, to be checked against the deployment record.

Sources: The White House, “Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Briefs Members of the Media, June 11, 2025” (official upload, embedded above). All characterizations as stated by the Press Secretary.