Calls to pull Kaitlan Collins’ press creds grow after throwdown with Gabbard and Leavitt

Knives are out for CNN’s Kaitlan Collins after she tussled with White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Wednesday.

During a White House briefing that afternoon, Collins questioned Gabbard about her recent, evidence-backed allegation that former President Barack Obama was the mastermind behind the Russian collusion delusion hoax and conspiracy theory.

“What would you say to people who believe you’re only releasing these documents [the ones showing Obama’s culpability] now to improve your standing with the [current] president after he said that your intelligence assessments were wrong?” she asked.

The question referenced the tiny feud that erupted between Gabbard and President Donald Trump earlier this year after she falsely claimed that Iran was no longer trying to build a nuclear bomb.

Gabbard decided to toss the question to Leavitt after first addressing one of Collins’ other questions. Leavitt in turn proceeded to decimate the CNN journo:

WATCH: Keep an eye on @PressSec during this entire exchange!

CNN activist Kaitlan Collins accuses Tulsi Gabbard of contradicting Rubio & questions if it’s a stunt to get in good with Trump.

Tulsi shuts it down, then Karoline Leavitt comes in from the top rope pic.twitter.com/9HUjeGIhba

— Alec Lace (@AlecLace) July 23, 2025

“The only people who are suggesting that the director of national intelligence would release evidence to try to boost her standing with the president are the people in this room who constantly try to sow distrust and chaos amongst the president’s cabinet — and it is not working,” Leavitt said.

“I am with the president of the United States every day. He has the utmost confidence in Director Gabbard. He always has. He continues to. And that is true of his entire cabinet, who is all working as one team to deliver on the promises this president made,” she added.

While it was a fairly quick back-and-forth exchange, it reverberated across the net, attracting the attention of even late Sen. John McCain’s daughter, Meghan, who, for the record, rarely ever attacks the mainstream press.

“Kaitlan Collins is an absolute imbecile and a pure partisan hack,” McCain stunningly wrote on X after the exchange.

“Have some respect for the two women standing in front of you who are exposing lies, deep corruption and keeping the country safe. The White House should pull her credentials,” she added.

Look:

Kaitlan Collins is an absolute imbecile and a pure partisan hack.

Have some respect for the two women standing in front of you who are exposing lies, deep corruption and keeping the country safe.

The White House should pull her credentials.

— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) July 23, 2025

McCain was joined in her anger by tens of thousands of Trump administration supporters.

“[I]t’s time we stop enabling @kaitlancollins,” one critic tweeted. “She has proven time and again that her goals are to continually spew hate and negativity despite all that this administration has done. Her press credentials need to be revoked immediately.”

“Kaitlin Collins thinks she is very smart; but exposes her appalling ignorance and partisanship every day,” another critic wrote. “She and other Media have reduced issues of National concern to bits of high school gossip.”

Top MAGA loyalist Steve Bannon also came after Collins this week, albeit for a different reason. Namely, her constant platforming of proven Russian collusion delusion hoaxers like James Clapper and Andrew McCabe.

Listen:

BANNON: @kaitlancollins is engaged in narrative warfare. Her show is a platform for McCabe and Clapper, two of the most senior people in this coup against President-elect Donald Trump. pic.twitter.com/lwXSk27rc7

— Grace Chong, MBI (@gc22gc) July 25, 2025

Collins also faced backlash for hounding White House officials late Thursday about the tiff between President Trump and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell.

Watch:

After Jay Powell contradicted President Trump on the cost of the Federal Reserve renovations, I asked Trump’s budget chief and deputy chief of staff about the numbers: pic.twitter.com/PU2DQpdQL0

— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) July 25, 2025

Below is some of the backlash:

your the worst reporter it’s cringe everytime you ask a question

— NateJudd (@NateJudd8) July 25, 2025

You are one of the most annoying journalists. It really is unprofessional how you try to argue with people who you ask questions.

— snooze (@snooze06155136) July 25, 2025

Uhm yes, not a journalist just an average guy here. He didn’t contradict him though… He simply said the building was finished.

Trump was pointing out that it was all part of the same project.

Thanks for coming to my TedTalk.

— Newbounds (@Newbounds) July 25, 2025

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V. Saxena is a staff writer for BizPac Review with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University.

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