Maegan VazquezVerified account @maeganvaz 28s28 seconds ago Ryan, Melania & Donald Trump, and Pence from the balcony of the Capitol building
Posted on 11/10/2016 11:03:44 AM PST by mdittmar
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday refused to let a group of journalists travel with him to cover his historic first meeting with President Barack Obama, breaking a long-standing practice intended to ensure the public has a watchful eye on the nation's leader.
Trump flew from New York to Washington on his private jet without that "pool" of reporters, photographers and television cameras that have traveled with presidents and presidents-elect.
Trump's flouting of press access was one of his first public decisions since his election Tuesday.
Trump's meeting with Obama on Thursday will be recorded by the pool of White House reporters, photographers and TV cameras who cover the president.
News organizations had for weeks tried to coordinate a pool of journalists who could begin to travel with Trump immediately after Election Day if he won election. But his campaign did not cooperate with those requests and his senior advisers refused Wednesday, the day after the election, to discuss any such press arrangements.
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Maegan VazquezVerified account @maeganvaz 28s28 seconds ago Ryan, Melania & Donald Trump, and Pence from the balcony of the Capitol building
Excellent. I love it.
Good!!!!!!!!!!
The fight has just begun people, obviously Trump knows this, I am inspired.
Where’s that gif of the smiling girl pretending to be wiping away tears?
Hit them in the pocketbook.
Let the “jornol-ists” and “repeators” read FR and learn what’s really going on in the Nation.
now who’s “the deplorables.”
Only a fool invites enemies into his own tent.
Heh.
The press has made itself an enemy of the people and made the people an enemy of itself.
No forgetting.
No forgiving.
No mercy.
Protocol?? Obama and Hillary kept the press at bay for years.
Screw the press. They attacked and lied and spun and campaigned for hillary and they are worrying about their beloved protocol? Go to hell.
Good, keep it up. They wouldn’t report the truth anyway.
All I want to see is press releases from the WH.
YESSSSSS!
Make the slimy bastards start PAYING A PRICE for screwing with you.
I like where Trump is headed!
Exactly.
Do not cooperate with the flunkies who were en masse, against him.
Not that I’m saying he should interfere with the way they do their jobs. I’m not saying that at all.
But I for one am sick, and tired, of America’s biased, leftist media monstrosity.
All of them. Let them work for a change.
Deprive them all of oxygen and develop other media venues to reward with access
A lot of them have been out of practice for a while anyway.
they lied, made fun of him, treated him like crap, and now they expect all is forgiven.
Actions have consequences.
I love it!
Keep the enemy propaganda arm away!!! They don’t deserve access.
Protocol?!! Wasn’t that a drinking word for all seasons of 24????
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