Conservative media figures disappointed with Trump meeting
Source: The Hill
BY JONATHAN EASLEY - 04/25/17 06:00 AM EDT
Some conservative media figures invited to an exclusive event with President Trump on Monday night left the White House frustrated and complaining that Trump's staff had intentionally sought to limit what they could report out of the meeting.
The White House invitation to about 30 conservative reporters, editors, columnists and radio personalities was originally billed as a background briefing with the president, meaning that they couldn't attribute quotes to individual sources in the room. The gathering was instead meant to show the White Houses appreciation for outlets it believes are routinely ignored or marginalized by the mainstream press.
Representatives from Newsmax, Breitbart, Townhall, The Daily Caller and radio voices like Larry OConnor and John Fredericks mingled with White House press secretary Sean Spicer, chief strategist Stephen Bannon, chief of staff Reince Priebus and the White House communications team.
Reporters were asked to surrender their cellphones before entering the Roosevelt Room, a meeting room in the West Wing across from the Oval Office. Their phones were stored in lockers outside the room. One source said White House director of media affairs Helen Aguirre Ferre explained that phones had to be kept out because the Roosevelt Room is a SCIF, or a sensitive compartmented information facility, where officials view classified information.
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Nwgirl503
(406 posts)Lil snowflakes figuring out they're maybe just pawns? Bet they felt super VIP getting the invite tho.
Literally lol'ing.
Roy Rolling
(6,911 posts)Controlling the message! I am shocked a propaganda outfit would use such methods.
louis-t
(23,292 posts)Hitler did that to them in the '30s.
underpants
(182,769 posts)I looked up John Fredericks - never heard of him.
I had no idea there was an AM 820 radio station.
BumRushDaShow
(128,844 posts)did they illegally give these RW loons all sorts of classified info to use to generate more fake CT stories?
emulatorloo
(44,116 posts)paleotn
(17,911 posts)They're going to just make shit up anyway. That is their modas operandi in all things. They don't need factual info for that.
ffr
(22,669 posts)irisblue
(32,967 posts)is a semisweet thing.
get the red out
(13,461 posts)Couldn't happen to a more appropriate bunch of morons.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)Usually sooner.