In the White House Press Briefing Room on Friday, John Ashbrook was put right up front, in a spot normally reserved for staff.
Ashbrook, host of a pro-GOP podcast, was given the red-carpet treatment as he filled Trump’s “new media” seat. His “hard-hitting” question sounded completely staged, asking if the Press Secretary personally thought the media was out of touch. What an absolute joke.
Since this “new media” seat idea was announced Tuesday, a right-winger from Breitbart has also asked the first question. It seems to be Trump’s new weapon against the Press—having scripted questions that allow Donald to more easily spread his lies.
Trump’s Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says that the new seat is needed, because trust in the media is at an all-time low. Funny how she didn’t mention the enormous role her pathological liar of a boss played in all that.
It’s not just at the White House where things are getting bad for corporate media. Trump also had his disgrace of a Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, make sweeping changes with the Pentagon Press Corps.
NBC News, NPR, The NY Times, and Politico were all kicked out of their workspaces, and replaced with maga propaganda outlets One America News, Breitbart, the New York Post, and randomly—HuffPost.
NBC stated they were “disappointed,” and The NY Times said it was a “concerning development.” Sounds like Susan Collins wrote those responses.
Kevin Baron, a former VP of the Pentagon Press Association, called the changes an “erasure of journalism at the Pentagon…replaced with fake news partisans…for fake balance.”
This is why corporate media should’ve never bent the knee to Trump. Mika and Joe needed to stay home. ABC News shouldn’t have settled. Neither should Paramount.
Trump cutting off access to the Press is just the beginning. We warned them, but they clearly didn’t listen. And in the end, the American people will pay the price for it. Lies and fake news manufactured by the White House, looks to become the norm.
That’s where we come in. We are completely independent, pro-democracy journalists who have been fighting Trump for 9 years—and we’re not backing down now. We will always cut through his noise and distractions, to deliver the truth.
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Onward,
Scott
If you were a member of the Press, and had the opportunity to ask Trump one question, what would it be?
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I've said this before, but I would be willing to set up a GoFundMe for the first journalist to say some variation of the following TO HIS FACE: DURING THE CAMPAIGN, YOU REPEATEDLY SAID YOU HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH PROJECT 2025 AND WERE UNAWARE OF WHAT WAS IN IT...THAT CLEARLY WAS A LIE...DO YOU PLAN TO APOLOGIZE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FOR SUCH A BLATANT MISTRUTH?