The Trump administration goes on the attack against The Wall Street Journal
Well, this comes as absolutely no surprise. Days after The Wall Street Journal dropped an exclusive story that tied President Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein, the Journal has been banned from the group of pool reporters covering Trump’s upcoming trip to Scotland.
The White House press pool is for a smaller group of reporters covering the president during events when the whole press corps can’t be accommodated. The White House Correspondents’ Association used to pick which news outlets were in the pool, but earlier this year, the White House and press secretary Karoline Leavitt took over that role.
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