White House Press Secretary Says Outlets Will Face Retribution If ‘Lies’ Are Told About Trump
The Associated Press is being denied access to the president because it refuses to change its stylebook guidance on ‘the Gulf of America.’
The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said Wednesday that retribution could come for news outlets who tell “lies” about President Trump and his administration — as the administration has already done by blocking the Associated Press twice from entering the Oval Office after it declined to change in its stylebook the name of the Gulf of Mexico to “the Gulf of America.”
Ms. Leavitt, as the youngest press secretary in history, is already trying to remake the briefing room by adding a “new media seat” for podcasters and non-traditional news outlets who otherwise would not get credentials to access the White House. Her comments Wednesday are igniting new concerns among members of the press corps, especially after the Defense Department began removing outlets from their workspaces at the Pentagon and replacing them with more editorially friendly ones.
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