Posted on 04/02/2020 7:05:44 PM PDT by McGruff
A cable news correspondent who has been barred from White House briefings by a journalists organization said Thursday she had been explicitly invited by President Trumps press secretary, Stephanie Grisham, and plans to continue covering the daily sessions.
Chanel Rion, who works for the Trump-friendly One America News Network, made the remarks on the air Thursday amid a standoff with the White House Correspondents Association over her repeated appearances in the small briefing room on days when it was not her organizations turn to attend. Hours later, she showed up to the briefing for the third consecutive day.
Rion said Grisham had signed off on her presence, despite a strict seat rotation established during the coronavirus crisis to thin the usual crowd and keep reporters and officials including Trump and Vice President Mike Pence at a safe distance from one another.
Her comments suggest that top White House officials, including Trump himself, may have granted special approval to OANN. Its unlikely that Grisham would have approved such an extraordinary breach of the access rules without Trumps knowledge or assent.
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... “Oh.”
I wonder who will be in the cast of the Trump News Network someday?
And just like that, another WIN!
The other media are shooting themselves in the foot by bringing attention to OANN.
This will make OANN more popular than ever as they side with the popular president.
...”Brilliant maneuver on the part of the Trump Administration: shows that THEY are in charge of the press conference attendance, NOT the white house correspondents association” ...
Well THAT does end any question if or not the Pres. can choose his ‘guest’ reporters regardless of the rules set by the WHCA or what the reporters agree on.
Hey, youve been to the Philippines, havent you?
The journo thugs are Comcast & ATT
Freedom of Speech.
The MSM doesn’t like it.
She’s purdy. And her boyfriend is, too. Super good looking.
“Fox truncated their broadcast for “McCallum Report” (or some such 2nd string thing).”
At the same time FNC cut the briefing for airhead McCallum they cut the briefing on FBN, too. They did that to run a re-play of Dobbs’ 5:00 show. Why show a re-run of Dobbs? Then, at 1:00 they show ANOTHER re-run of Dobbs. WTF? I miss Trish’s show.
Paul Ryan at Fox isn’t a good thing.
I wonder if I could schedule a presser with her?
“The Trump administration controls the White House and press briefings”
Stephanie Grisham is great for inviting Chanel back. I think she’s doing a better job than Sarah Huckabee. And Chanel should be one of the regulars considering she’s an actual journalist.
Notice how they write One America News is Trump friendly, and yet would never write the NY Times etc is anti Trump.
EXACTLY
Is she Filipino?
Love One America News
The Cartel needs to be broken.
Trump is the penultimate multi level/layer multitasker.
Winning so much.
Never let a crisis go to waste.
...
Yep, beat them at their own game...Schumer, Peosi and many others will take an income hit if cartels are destroyed.
Gotta ensure we have some actual reporters there instead of the “gotcha!” crew and the Iran sympathizers...
Thank God.
An adult among children.
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