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The White House says it selects journalists who are allowed to have the nearest Donald Trump access, which a body of reporters engaged in the “pools” involving presidents of US.
The step was announced by Karoline Leavitt, the White House Press Secretary, during a short of Tuesday where his team “would determine who could enjoy spaces like Air Force A and the Oval Office”.
“We will give back the power of people who read your papers, looking at your television shows and listen to your radio stations,” Leavitt said. He added that the step is designed to bring “new voices” to cover the trumpel alongside ” media“Organizations.
Trump later told the reporters, “we call the shots”.
Pushing Leavitt quits the current system, where the White House Cofectifents’ Association, is a body of reporters who exist since 1914, sets a rotation of outlets to be part of the pool.
The group has the best access to US Presidents in Washington and home trips and abroad.
“It moves tears of freedom in a free press in the United States,” the White House Cesectenctents’ Association, whose members include reporters during financial, said Tuesday.
“It suggests that the government selects journalists who are disguised by the President. In a free country, leaders should not choose their own corps.”
Steps can add concerns that Trumpet Quickly operate immediately to damage some basic norms and US democracy institutions.
The White House has made steps to better control the independent government agencies, clean the civil service to the rejected staff and fire officials appointed by former President Joe Biden.
Trump has a history of criticism of traditional media organizations throughout political career, labeled as “fake news” and the enemy of men “.
In the first few months of Trump’s second term, the White House moved to exclude justice press from access to “pool” due to the Gulo Gulfo refusal as the “Gulf of America”.
Trump directed the US government to adopt a new name soon after re-entering the White House.
AP began the White House to restore its access to the pool based on constitutional right to free speech. However, on Monday a federal judge ruled in Trump’s favor today, saying the ap do not face “uncountable deals” from lack of pool involvement.
Despite the nature of litigation, Leavitt asked the ruling of the judge, saying the idea was strengthened that the president’s question of limited spaces “was a privilege of a legal RIGHT FOR EVERYONE“.