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Blanche defends Trump’s White House media ban: ‘It is a privilege, not a right’ (www.theguardian.com)
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US attorney general argues that president was ‘sick and tired’ of inaccurate reporting by CNN, MS Now and Politico

Donald Trump’s attorney general Todd Blanche argued on Sunday that the administration was permitted to ban three news outlets from the White House because “it is a privilege and not a right to be there”.

Appearing on the ABC News program This Week during the second week of the White House’s dispute over press credentialing and access, Blanche also said that the administration took the decision to ban CNN, MS Now and Politico beginning on 19 September because the president was “sick and tired” of what he considered to be those media outlets’ inaccurate reporting.

Blanche offered no evidence for his claim that the outlets’ reporting was inaccurate, rather than simply unflattering to the president. Pressed by the interviewer, Martha Raddatz, to point to a report the administration objected to, Blanche seemed to suggest that any negative reporting about Trump must be inaccurate.

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[–] 13 points 5 days ago (1 child)

"Look, what we're doing is not technically illegal," the administration flack said, for the 873rd time this year.

It would be very funny if the media started saying stuff like "The president, who won't allow us to be in the room with him, could have been snorting horse tranquilizers when he offered to sell weapons to China. At any rate, we can't tell you that he wasn't."

They won't do that, though.

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