Posted on 01/15/2017 6:32:29 AM PST by blam
Tyler Durden
January 15, 2017
The simmering cold, if heating up with every passing day, war between Trump and the press may be about to turn conventional, with the occasional chance of an ICBM.
Just days after calling out CNN fake news during his first press conference of 2017, Esquire reports that according to three senior officials on the transition team, the incoming Trump administration is "seriously considering" a plan to evict the press corps from the White House.
If the plan goes through, one of the officials said, the media will be removed from the cozy confines of the White House press room, where it has worked for several decades. Members of the press will be relocated to the White House Conference Center—near Lafayette Square—or to a space in the Old Executive Office Building, next door to the White House.
Trump's press secretary tried to cast the possible relocation of the press corps as a matter, in part, of logistics. "There's been so much interest in covering a President Donald Trump," he said. "A question is: Is a room that has forty-nine seats adequate? When we had that press conference the other day, we had thousands of requests, and we capped it at four hundred. Is there an opportunity to potentially allow more members of the media to be part of this? That's something we're discussing."
He added that "There has been no decision," yet but acknowledged that "there has been some discussion about how to do it."
Other Trump staffers, however, explain that it's not business, it's personal. "They are the opposition party," a senior official was quoted by Esquire. "I want 'em out of the building. We are taking back the press room."
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Freedom of speech!Freedom of speech!Freedom of speech!Freedom of speech! That’s what you’ll hear them screaming if he does. Not sure how that’s censorship. I know we distance ourselves from people who lie and spread falsehoods and create drama where none is required. So, what’s the problem?
They are not only Trump’s enemy, they are America’s enemy. I hope he does run these vile, arrogant, Demonic Party-supporting scum off the premises, as they serve no useful purpose in turning this country around after eight years of the jug-eared ass clown.
Why should the press corps think that 49 favored ones should be given seats? That’s exclusionary. Move ‘em out.
amen
Good!
Kick them out.
He should!!! The Podesta emails have revealed that these so-called journalists are in reality DNC operatives using journalism as cover. Anyone named in the emails should have their press credentials pulled forever.
Classic Trump. Throw the chum out there for the media and Dems feeding frenzy that will last two to three days, watch the hand wringing of the Repubs, then Trump moves on to another topic, rinse and repeat. He’s owning them.
Do it! If there were a poisonous viper in the WH, wouldn’t they do everything to get it out?
The DNC hacks have no business in the press room.
Wow!
I can hear the steam coming out of the ears of those tender loins in liberal-land all over the country.
Money changers.
"They are the opposition party."
Absolutely. What could be more clear! That's exactly what they are.
Sounds like a plan. Put them in Blair House and promise you’ll visit occasionally. Oh, the new press room doesn’t have WiFi or satellite connections? Well, that’s just something to be endured during remodeling. Sorry about the one unisex toilet, also.
Wikileaks confirmed what we all suspected, that the Ministry of Propaganda was colluding with the Democrats.
They are and have been the propaganda arm of the communists, which is what the Democrat Party has become under BHO. The CPUSA did not run a candidate for the first time because BHO fulfilled their desires. They endorsed him.
It’s about time someone said it openly.
They ARE the opposition party.
And they ARE opposed to not just Republicans, but to American values and the Constitution.
They endorsed an illegitimate usurper who was never eligible to be President and attacked anyone who dared to point that out.
Birtherism was the most successful and vicious Alinsky ever perpetrated. And the most damaging to the future security of the Republic.
Winning is fun.
5.56mm
This is NON-NEGOTIABLE.
Ari Fleischer & Laura Ingraham (on Lou Dobbs I think, earlier this week) both said there is no reason for the press “elites” to be in the WH. Laura in particular thought they should be moved to a nearby building. Both were appalled at Acosta trying to shout down PE Trump. Newt Gingrich said the medial elite cabal (my word because I can’t remember the exact wording he used) needs to be broken up. All were saying add the use of youtube, Facebook, get other reporters in from different parts of the country, even have regular people attend/ask questions, etc. to get away from the media elite’s supposed monopoly on ‘news’ and the slanted version they try to feed to the American people.
Yes, it will be “war”, but ‘we the people’ will heartily approve a major smack down of the media. The media elites who have been lying, openly campaigning/covering for Hillary, covering for Obama’s crimes/scandals & looking down their noses at the “deplorables” will be the losers ... big time.
Why on earth would CNN ever be allowed withing a thousand feet of the White House?
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