Posted on 10/05/2026 7:12:28 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
“Judge Timothy Kelly is scheduled to hold a hearing on Thursday...”
Trump judge. One of the worst. Indistinguishable from a Democrat.
The MSM should have their own damned plane paid for by themselves and not get a free ride by us taxpayers, don’t remember the part in the Constitution were it stated the press get a free ride all over the planet.
the White House offered the seat to other news organizations, but several declined
What moronic "news organization" would turn down the opportunity to be that close to a sitting president (like him or not) and report on what he is doing? That would be a career changing assignment as well as a huge boost for the organization.
The world is insane.
No “right” to a seat or admittance. Try being a little more civil.
Since the Hussein/Biden/Harris Crime Syndicate funneled mucho $$$$ to Bull-BLEEP-ico through USAID, how about telling Bull-BLEEP-ico that they need to reimburse the taxpayers.
Only then will President Trump consider any changes.
One .. then All.
100,000 on board🌪️
A constitutional right to fly on a Luxury plane? Let’s see how ACB and Roberts work this into textualist theory. I’m sure they’ll try.
Trump should assign all open seats to the new media and then just say the plane is full. Politico has no more right to a seat than any other new media outlet.
Keep up the good work, Mr. President. You are The Man!
Should have waited until the plane was at 30,000 feet altitude before kicking them off...
Just I declare that only essential personnel are allowed on AF1. Problem solved. Stop with the schoolyard antics.
He should give the seat to Nick Shirley, and point out that 1) He's done more high impact accurate investigative journalism at 23 years of age than most of the MSM, and 2) He's a perfect example of real suppression of his first amendment rights by the California liberal legislature.
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
“What moronic “news organization” would turn down the opportunity to be that close to a sitting president (like him or not) and report on what he is doing?”
Nah. The question you should be asking is, why do news agencies prefer to be in the White House pool and NEVER being able to report on a “world exclusive” from an official event.
The White House pool is a vital mechanism that allows dozens of news organisations to access the exact same source footage, the same transcripts, and the same audio, as everybody else. Lose it, and you lose all independent reporting.
The agencies in the pool take it in turns to cover the events, and share the ENTIRE audio and video, transcripts and all, with all other organisations.
In one week every pro Trump outlet gets all of the pool footage, unredacted, from an anti Trump outlet. In the next week, a pro Trump outlet is the one in rotation and it gives all of the pool footage, again unredacted, from a pro Trump outlet. Whoever’s doing the recording, by convention, is never able to present its own footage as a “world exclusive”; it’s AFTER the pool’s already done its job that each organisation with access to the pool footage can apply its editorial bias.
Why are they signed up to this? Simple: the alternative would be prohibitively expensive.
Maybe Mike the Pillow Man can afford to pay out of his own pocket for every seat on every plane, train, helicopter or motorcade - and the hotel bills - for the sound and video crews AS WELL AS the journalists. But I’d be willing to bet he’d rather have his outlet added to the existing pool, and benefit from the larger outlets covering 90% of those costs without placing any conditions on what he then gets to do with the footage. It would mean that the one time in ten that he’s in the room, he’d have to be as open with the footage he got, as the other pool organisations are.
Hardly any independent bloggers would survive if every time they wanted to play back a video/audio clip from inside Air Force One they would have to have been on that bird in person, and paying for their own ticket (or, paying an exorbitant subscription fee to a media company to access media IT recorded inside Air Force One.)
That’s why Trump can approach other news agencies to take the place of the pool, but if they’ve got any common sense at all they’ll say no.
Just ban them all from the aircrafts.
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