Trump Revokes Washington Post Press Credentials

Donald Trump on Monday said his campaign would revoke the press credentials of The Washington Post, effectively prohibiting journalists from one of the nation’s largest newspapers from joining the traveling press corps of the presumptive Republican nominee.

Trump’s problems with WaPo are longstanding: During a meeting with the newspaper’s editors in March, he complained of their “incredible hatred” for him, adding, “I’ve been treated very, very badly by The Washington Post”.

“Marty Baron, executive editor of The Washington Post, said: “(this) is nothing less than a repudiation of the role of a free and independent press. But a wide array of news media advocates have condemned the behavior and expressed concern that it could have a chilling effect on other outlets’ coverage of Trump. “I am no fan of President Obama, but to show you how dishonest the phony Washington Post is, they wrote, “Donald Trump suggests President Obama was involved with Orlando shooting” as their headline”, Trump said. I mean, they said – they made the statement that I said that Obama – essentially, Obama went in and shot the people.

Trump and his people have previously tried to block coverage by Politico, Univision, the Des Moines Register, Buzzfeed, Gawker and several overseas publications.

On Tuesday, CNN reporter Brian Stelter interviewed Trump regarding the Post’s ban and he said Trump said that if elected, he wouldn’t try to revoke anyone’s White House press credentials.

Trump himself indicated that the decision came after he disagreed with a Washington Post article with the headline “Donald Trump seems to connect President Obama to Orlando Shooting“.

The Washington Post first reported the incident.

“I’m outraged by the attacks on American diplomatic missions in Libya and Egypt and by the death of an American consulate worker in Benghazi”, he said.

Clinton said such proposals would only make it more hard for law enforcement to work with Muslim communities. Its original headline, which Trump accurately cited in his Facebook post, was changed after about an hour.

Obama spoke in a rebuking tone about what he called Trump’s anti-Muslim rhetoric, blasting the Republican presidential nominee’s immigration proposals as unsafe and “not the America we want”.

Trump’s media coverage was worth about $55 million dollars, compared to $19 million for Bush. “I don’t know exactly what’s going on”.

On Tuesday, after President Obama excoriated Trump’s proposals as un-American and risky, the Republican National Committee issued a press release attacking Obama’s position on gun control, but without mentioning the man its voters have selected to be the party’s leader.

Donald Trump’s unfavorable view among Americans just reached a new high, with a new poll claiming that seven out of 10 Americans believe that the Republican presumptive nominee is unfit to be the next president of the United States. The reporter attended the event with a general admission ticket because he had already been denied a press credential.

After a rocky week dominated by the Curiel comments, one of the top Senate Republicans, Majority Whip John Cornyn, simply said he was done talking about Trump.

Barring journalists is an nearly unheard-of practice for a modern presidential candidate. They were almost as unsparing as the Democrats in their criticism of his boundary-pushing response Monday to the killing of 49 people at a gay club in Orlando, Florida, by an American-born Muslim who pledged loyalty to the Islamic State group. “Mr. Trump’s reaction to declare war on the faith is the worst possible solution”. Last July, Trump’s campaign stopped credentialing Scott Conroy, then HuffPost’s senior political reporter.