Leading news outlets CNN, Politico and MS NOW have sued the \u2060\u2060administration of United States President Donald Trump after it banned them from the White House grounds.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis morning, we notified the government that we are filing a lawsuit today to protect our First Amendment rights and defend the principle that the government does not decide what the press reports or publishes,\u201d the outlets said in a joint statement on Monday.<\/p>\n
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Later on Monday, their complaint was filed in the Washington, DC, US federal court.<\/p>\n
The White House revoked the credentials of the <\/a>journalists<\/a> of the organisations \u201cwithout notice or process\u201d because it \u201cobjected to our reporting\u201d, their statement said, adding, \u201cLeft unchallenged, this threatens press freedom and the public\u2019s right to independent journalism free from government interference.\u201d<\/p>\n All three outlets said on Saturday that their journalists were turned away from the White House grounds and their press credentials confiscated.<\/p>\n In the statement, they added that they would file \u2060\u2060a lawsuit in the US District Court for the District of Columbia and could see emergency hearings in the case as soon as this week.<\/p>\n Also on Monday, leading US broadcasters, ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox and NBC said in a joint statement that they had suspended TV \u201cpool\u201d coverage of Trump. TV broadcasters rotate responsibility for filming the president at some events.<\/p>\n \u201cThe public has a vital interest in receiving accurate, independent information about its government. No administration should restrict a news organisation because it objects to its reporting,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n Later on Monday, US Vice President JD Vance defended the ban, saying it was not an attack on free speech, as the affected media organisations could still report on Trump, get the public reports and talk to people in the administration.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat the president has said is, \u2018We\u2019re not going to give you special access inside the White House\u2019,\u201d Vance said, claiming that the move was against \u201cpropaganda\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have to remember \u2026. about 92 percent of the stories that [those outlets] have on the president of the United States on the administration are negative,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s not representative of the American people. It\u2019s not representative of public opinion. So if you\u2019re going to engage in what is effectively far left propaganda, why would a Republican White House give you special access?\u201d<\/p>\n Trump has responded to the suit in a statement posted on Truth Social, bashing what he called the \u201cfake news people\u201d, saying that \u201cthe Oval Office \u2026should be treated with Decorum, Respect, and Dignity, not defiled by Third Rate Clowns\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cNo matter how GREAT my Achievements, they trivialize and demean,\u201d the president added.<\/p>\n \u2018Fake news\u2019<\/p>\n On Friday, Trump said that he was banning the outlets from the presidential mansion as punishment for distributing what he called \u201cfake news\u201d.<\/p>\n He did not detail what prompted the ban, but on Monday said it was not an attack on the free press, \u201cwhich I cherish\u201d, but \u201can assault on the FAKE NEWS, something that has grown like Cancer in our beloved United States of America\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is corrupt, purposeful, pervasive, fully coordinated, and totally out of control,\u201d he wrote on Truth Social. \u201cIt is a threat to our National Security, and must be stopped, NOW!\u201d<\/p>\n The White House Correspondents\u2019 Association (WHCA) called on the Trump administration to immediately restore access to the three outlets.<\/p>\n \u201cThe implications extend beyond these organisations: a standard used to exclude one news outlet because of its coverage could be applied to any outlet in the future,\u201d WHCA President Jacqui Heinrich said in a statement on X.<\/p>\n \u201cThe American people, through a free and independent press, must be able to scrutinise those elected to power, regardless of whether government officials view it favourably.\u201d<\/p>\n The Trump administration has been denying access to many \u2060\u2060leading news organisations while elevating new media outlets seen \u2060\u2060as more sympathetic to the administration. The US president has also filed a number of lawsuits against media giants, including The New York Times and CBS.<\/p>\n The move comes as Trump\u2019s fellow Republicans seek to defend their narrow majorities in Congress in the US\u2019s November midterm elections. Pre-election opinion polls suggest the public is souring on Republicans, and Trump\u2019s approval \u2060\u2060ratings are at near-historic lows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leading news outlets CNN, Politico and MS NOW have sued the \u2060\u2060administration of United States President Donald Trump…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[184,13146,42,4178,43,40,38,41,39,1032,1156],"class_list":["post-623446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-economy","tag-freedom-of-the-press","tag-headlines","tag-media","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-united-states","tag-us-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}