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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,102 posts)
Wed Jan 18, 2017, 03:45 PM Jan 2017

Reporters have worked from the White House for over 100 years. Will Trump evict them?

I followed the routine on Tuesday that I had hundreds of times covering the Clinton, Bush and Obama presidencies.

I flashed my White House press pass at the guard at the northwest gate, cleared security and walked unmolested up the North Lawn driveway to the West Wing. I entered the press room, dropped my briefcase at the Post desk, then crossed into the briefing room to see the president’s press secretary take questions from all comers.

Over the decades, thousands of other journalists have performed this ritual, a potent symbol of the unparalleled freedom of the press in America: journalists freely accessing the very seat of power — the West Wing of the White House — and demanding answers of high officials.

Now, Donald Trump is considering putting an end to this. Over the weekend, Vice President-elect Mike Pence and incoming White House chief of staff Reince Priebus confirmed that they were weighing a plan to kick reporters out of the West Wing in favor of a larger site elsewhere in the White House compound. That they are even considering such a move is shocking, yet not surprising.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/reporters-have-worked-from-the-white-house-for-over-100-years-will-trump-evict-them/2017/01/17/c6c040c8-dcfa-11e6-ad42-f3375f271c9c_story.html?utm_term=.b4a45e624b91&wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1

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Reporters have worked from the White House for over 100 years. Will Trump evict them? (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2017 OP
I hope he does. geomon666 Jan 2017 #1

geomon666

(7,512 posts)
1. I hope he does.
Wed Jan 18, 2017, 03:48 PM
Jan 2017

I really hope he does. I hope he treats them like complete and utter shit. Then maybe, just maybe, they'll know how the rest of the country feels about this dickbag.

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