NPR reporter driven into hiding after being named by MAGA as one who hit Trump in face with a mic

Daily Mail ^ | 3-17-25 | CLAUDIA AORAHA

[dynachrome]

A reporter for NPR has been driven into hiding after being named by MAGA supporters as the person who hit President Donald Trump in the face with a microphone.

Danielle Kurtzleben, a political correspondent for the government-funded outlet, was named as the journalist who allegedly hit Trump in the face with a boom mic during a press conference last week, according to independent journalist Laura Loomer.

Loomer, a staunch Trump fan, identified Kurtzleben on Sunday in a post on X, suggesting she may have hit the president on purpose.

'I have identified the reporter who hit President @realDonaldTrump in the face with a boom mic this week while he was speaking to the press on the tarmac,' Loomer wrote.

'Her name is Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka. She is the newly appointed White House reporter for @NPR and a massive Trump hater and LGBTQ advocate who once suggested during the 2024 campaign that Trump only spoke in Howell, Michigan because it has ties to the KKK.

'Did she hit President Trump in the face on purpose?,' Loomer speculated.

Loomer's tweet has been viewed nearly 7 million times - and triggered hundreds of other Trump fans to also speculate about Kurtzleben's alleged involvement.

After being named, Kurtzleben made her X account private and has not spoken about the situation.

[SaveFerris]

I’m on a different browser - I haven’t been pulling up Firefox lately - constant updates - just deleted a game off my phone for that

[Wilderness Conservative]

You sound fully vaccinated with a Ukraine flag bumper sticker.

[TangoLimaSierra]

She has the perfect face for NPR.

[Bob434]

yeah it was classic Trump- loved it- still laugh every time it comes on

[Ann Archy]

oMG!! Don’t look!! TYPICAL UGLY DEMOCRAT!! YIKES!

[Billthedrill]

Crush her utterly. Send mobs to her door. Cut off her bank accounts and credit cards. Honk air horns outside her door at 3 AM. SWAT her and leave her naked and handcuffed in the street while the team wrecks everything in her apartment. Flush her goldfish down the toilet!! An example must be made.

Oh, wait. Those are all things her darling Left does. I got confused for a minute there.

[Vermont Lt]

How many news scrums have you been in? I’ve been in a bunch of them. In my life, I’ve seen this a bunch of times.

You guys see this stuff once and think its the only time its happened.

[Vermont Lt]

You sound like a judgmental person with little life experience.

[Ann Archy]

There COULD have been a POISON on that boom!!~ I put NOTHING past these people!

[Ann Archy]

There COULD have been a POISON on that boom!!~ I put NOTHING past these people!

[Vermont Lt]

Some would interpret a comment as “getting worked up.” I don’t.

[butlerweave]

Drama Queen \o/ I’m hiding ,LOL

[LouAvul]

Kurtzleben. Sounds like a good nazi name.

[Theophilus]

Kurtzleben wanted to count coup but instead she counted kook!

[hecticskeptic]

Watched the clip... I suppose it could be classified as intentional but if not, it certainly was a bit reckless since due care wasn’t exercised.

Having said that, one has to wonder about the security aspects and measures concerning these press meetings and something needs to be reviewed. The mic boom could have had dangerous chemicals or biological agents on it and its size (particularly with the wind screen foam) could have made for a big bomb....

[delchiante]

You all get to define things a little different in Massholeland.
You get it honestly.

Lieawatha being a great example for all to follow.

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

She deserves the humilistion fir tarring a town as racist just because a loser in the kkk, forty years or more ago, lived in a shack within the town limits.

DC, new york, and LA have a higher percentake of npr racists than anywhere outside soddom.

[fr_freak]

'Did she hit President Trump in the face on purpose?,' Loomer speculated.

Looks like she asked a question, not made an accusation. If so, I don't see how she could be sued. After all, this ain't Loomer's first rodeo. As far as identifying the woman, I'm sure that was extremely easy to verify.

[rlmorel]

LOL...it reminds me of this, and I laugh each time I think of it!

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I loved watching Trump, as he blasted this evil, lying, stupid, dissembling, incompetent, racist, corrupt hag of a witch at his press conference the other day.

Love it.

LINK: Trump Calls Warren "Pocahontas", says He'd Debate Her

About seven seconds in, after someone asks him a question about Warren he says "Who? Pocahontas? Well, look, she is..." you hear some Leftist Loser Karen shout out "Very Offensive!" and President Trump does not even miss a beat, says as an aside "...oh, I'm sorry about that...Pocahontas?" Just says it again.

I love it. He drives them to take their masks off.

His nonchalant response to the pathetic, TDS "reporter" reminds me of this meme:

Then he continues:

"Elizabeth Warren? No, no...she tweets a lot about me, once in a while I will tweet, you know when I tweet...when she tweets, not a lot of people watch her tweets, but when I tweet, they watch.

I will say this...look. She is a Senator who is highly overrated, she has passed very little legislation, she has been a real disaster for a lot of people including the Democrats, who frankly an't stand her, many of the Democrats, just ask Hillary Clinton how she likes her.

And, I would say this...I'll debate anybody, I don't care. I'd debate her. But she's done very little for Massachusetts. And the beautiful thing is, when I won Massachusetts with many people running against me, I got up to almost fifty percent, and she was fighting me.

So, I really think that if her record was exposed, and the "fact" that she was a Native American, she said she was a Native American, but she wasn't able to document it, she said "well, I have high cheekbones, you see, I have high cheekbones so I'm a Native American" and she then, I don't know if you would call it a fraud or not, but she was able to get into various schools because of the fact that she applied as a Native American, and probably able to get other things. I think she is as Native American as I am. That I will tell you.

But, she's a woman that has been very ineffective, other than she has a big mouth..."

THIS IS HOW YOU DEAL WITH THESE PEOPLE. THIS IS HOW YOU DEAL WITH THESE CULTURAL BULLIES. THIS IS HOW YOU DEAL WITH THESE ANTI-AMERICAN MARXISTS.

They are bullies. The ONLY thing they understand is when you strike back at them and hit the in their figurative noses.

I have waited my entire adult life for a President who didn't roll up in a fetal ball when these people invoke their odious attacks.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

That was not accidental and everyone knows it.