By Dana Milbank Dana Milbank Op-ed columnist covering national politics Email Bio Follow Columnist May 8 at 5:00 PM For the past 21 years, I have had the high privilege of holding a White House press pass, a magical ticket that gives the bearer a front-row seat to history.
I’m not the only one. It was part of a mass purge of “hard pass” holders after the White House implemented a new standard that designated as unqualified almost the entire White House press corps, including all six of The Post’s White House correspondents. White House officials then chose which journalists would be granted “exceptions.” It did this over objections from news organizations and the White House Correspondents’ Association.
Last year, Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump appointee, ordered the White House to restore Acosta’s press credentials, saying that the White House’s process for revoking his access was “shrouded in mystery.” The White House, in rescinding my credentials, told me I had only been in the building seven times in the previous 180 days .
WHEN ARE WE GOING TO SEE THE LIGHT AND GET RID OF THE WANT TO BE ADOLF HITLER PRESIDENT, BUT HE IS NOT ADOLF HITLER, BUT BEFORE HE BECOME ADOLF HITLER! USE AND ABUSE OF POWER!
sherrilee7 To paraphrase Woody Allen... « the food here tastes like shit and the servings are too small »... ignore these lying asswipes.. we want news not spin.
My brother was in Africa during a takeover by a dictator. First action seize and control press and broadcast journalism. This action is anti-American and anti-Constitutional. I'm scared for America.
Stop being a democrat operative and start being an actual objective reporter and maybe you'll get it back. Or keep crying. lol
Were you jailed? Were you wiretapped?
Journalism is dead. True reporting is unbiased and honest. Distrust in the media has never been higher. With concentration of media ownership comes concentration of power. The power to persuade.
Freedom for the ‘Press’... Is this Russia, is this China, is this Turkey...? Nope, it’s potus USA 🇺🇸... Way to make America great again, mr. Trump, way to go...
Surely that will end the Republic. Think about all the intelligent analysis she has contributed. Oh, wait.
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Donald Trump is a Psychopath !
The press/journalists should just stop going to the WhiteHouse, there's no value in what liar SarahSanders says anyway. You guys have the collective power to shut her up. sarahsanderslied
Don’t think so Trump. It’s the PEOPLES HOUSE. The People are allowed to know what government is doing. BiggestLoserTrump
Autocracy
NEWS FLASH! America equates reporters with snakes.
Stop giving Trump free exposure to broadcast lies & propaganda. Start charging him candidate rates by the minute. Real time fact checking delay before releasing Trump initiated broadcasts. 🗽⚖️🕊😎⏳
It's time for the newspapers, digital media, and tv channels to boycott the WH and Trump's rallies. Stop showing up for press sprays, etc. Stop booking them on cable channels. Solidarity is needed now, more than ever. They will push as long as you let them.
When you collect information and then just write what you want. Your not really a reporter, you’re a fiction writer. Just own your own culpability and move on. fakenews gets trumped
time for a revolution
This is fascism.
FreePressIsFriendOfThePeople FreePressIsFriendOfThePeople Research and exposing facts is critical for a knowledgeable citizenry. 1st Amendment!!
Let me guess. According to an unnamed source. Sure, Jose.
And so it begins. Pravda TotalitarianRegime ComradeTrump
Why would you bother showing up for the disinformation session. You should have refused to attend on principle. Stop pretending anything normal is happening. Jesus. You’re like junkies.
Boo freaking hoo. Your opinion is not journalism.
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If Trump invites any press to a US Embassy anywhere do not go. Kushner has experience setting up contract bonesaw murders.
It’s about time
We’ll need to storm the damn gates if need be.
Fake news agents do not need a pass. They just need fake news writers!
1. Deconstruct the administrative state. ✔️ 2. Deconstruct checks and balances/3 equal branches. ✔️ 3. Gain control of the federal judiciary. ✔️ 4. Vilify and ultimately criminalize the Fourth Estate. ✔️
Animal Farm
I can;t believe this is happening.
Please don’t bother any more just don’t show up
they will return to normal when Trump is gone
The Trump Administration is trying to silence you, don't let it happen, give him enough rope and he will hang himself.
This goes against the Constitution, the criminal & his band of misfits don't believe in the Constitution. Kick Trump & every last one of them grifters out of the White House!!!
Is the Trump regime still talking about granting press credentials to Alex Jones' Info-Wars? They were at one time. You know Jones and Info-Wars. The ones recently booted from Twitter and Facebook for extremist conspiracy mongering.
'To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.' James Madison
Except your not journalists. You're social activists. Your job isn't to harass the press secretary into oblivion. Stop grandstanding and do your jobs for once.
I bet Fox journalists aren't banned!
Bbboooohhhhoooo Whitney liberal press. Love it. The enemy of the people crying wolf.
If you don’t represent a far right group and don’t support Trump, the Trump admin doesn’t want you around to ask questions. Clear violation of First Amendment.
Just plain wrong is a free society. I would expect that and worse in Russia, Saudi Arabia or North Korea
Stop pretending the has any journalists.
Trump is leading a criminal enterprise
Not everyone gets to go
Just like FB, IG and Twitter on conservatives.
Authoritarianism, one day at a time
Maybe because the Fake News isn't really fake & trump's getting desperate. Soon, he'll only be talking to Faux News.
How very anti-American of them.
He thinks hes king
Well, you are not a reporter. Your own newspaper says you are an op-ed columnist. Since you are not reporting the news but shooting off your mouth, you don't need a hard press pass. You can always apply for a day pass, so your access is not shut off completely.
😂😂😂😂😂 too bad so sad....do your job next time.
Fantastic. This means we are in a Dictatorship. Thank you DerangedDonald The Republican Party is dead
At what point will elected Republicans stand up and say “Enough is enough” to this administration?
As a Canadian I'm afraid for your country, where this is going. And I'm afraid for my country too.
We've heard a lot of crazy, dangerous, treasonous & plain...un-American rhetoric from this Madman, stuff most unPresidential & compromising. Treat this like the 'SILENT KILLER', diabetes or Heart Disease is. USA independence is in tick..tick..tick mode now.
Everyone was courting Trump for 💰 now he was the worst since Jekyll and Hyde.... make up your god damminds... it’s confusing
Go to court!!! Talk to Acosta it happened to him and look he won. Don’t be silent in this!!! God damnit!!!!!!!!! Fight!!!!
For all the bullshit you just wrote you NEVER covered a President so horribly as you did Trump why because he’s not your political affiliation. I remember a time when I was a high ranking officer of local 32bj everyone wanted to work for Trump!
Finally the beginning of the end.
This is the way our democracy will end. trump is unfit and McConnell and the GOP have put party over country. My mother had 2 uncles who were killed in WWII. Were their deaths in vain? Shame on cadet bone spurs and his administration
LOL
This is unbelievable! Trump, Sarah Sanders, WH are making US an authoritarian, fascist country and GOP is silent and helping them!
Good, maybe they'll get a news origination in there to take your place.
“We don’t have real journalists anymore. We’ve got Democrat Party hacks who are disguised as journalists.” - Rush Limbaugh
Are U friggen kidding? It's started. The destruction of your 1st amendment! There will be plenty others & then it's the networks. Essentially, the 'handling' of that seeding chart is beginning. We the people will be Me The Dictator, Sultan or King in 2020.
Consolidate power. Close ranks. Attack your enemies.
No accountability, no transparency, no checks and balances = no democracy.
It’s becoming increasingly clear that the Trump White House, and Trump himself, has something to hide. Politicians, and world leaders being secretive like this is never a good thing.
This is how democracy dies.
ian_lieberman This is an attack on free speech, but the frauds and phonies on the right who make their money talking about college campuses wont say anything.
PROPAGANDA ALERT ! This opinion is peddled as 'news'. Dems are the 21st century nazis---THEY are INTOLERANT of anyone man, woman, kid, black, white, brown, homosexual if NOT in LOCK-STEP ! Trump2020 DemocratsAreDestroyingAmerica
Press Freedom!
Aw, poor leftist lying baby
It happens with dictatorships
Bla bla bla
Can't have a dictatorship with free press running around
Is it really a press pass and not a lawn seat?
Sanders is likely the most hated woman in America
Turkey also did this, right before putting journalists on trial.
PressSec should be fired, she has a no show job.
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