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CNN, MS NOW, and Politico Sue Trump Over White House Ban
Confirmed
In Short: Politico’s White House reporter Cheyenne Haslett was also denied entry and had her badge confiscated, the outlets reported.
Soon after the ban was announced, CNN’s Betsy Klein and MS NOW’s Akayla Gardner were turned away from the White House, their press badges deactivated, as they arrived for their jobs.
Politico’s White House reporter Cheyenne Haslett was also denied entry and had her badge confiscated, the outlets reported.
Trump defended the ban, saying, “It's sick. I mean, there's something wrong with a country that can allow people to write purposely negative stuff. Now, if they want to write them, that's fine. But I don't have to let them into my, into the people's house.”
MS NOW said in a statement that the White House belongs to the American people and the decisions made inside are funded by their tax dollars.
Background
President Trump announced Friday that CNN, MS NOW, and Politico are banned from the White House.
President Donald Trump has highlighted new renovations to the White House, claiming the building was in poor condition before his updates.
What's confirmed
- WASHINGTON – CNN, MS NOW and Politico said Monday they’ve notified President Donald Trump’s administration that they’re filing a lawsuit over being denied White House access.
- Soon after, Politico said its White House reporter Cheyenne Haslett was also denied entry and had her badge confiscated.
- The WHCA’s president, Jacqui Heinrich, called on the Trump administration to immediately restore the three outlets’ access.
- White House reporters from the two cable networks — Betsy Klein of CNN and Akayla Gardner of MS NOW — went live to report they’d been turned away, their press badges deactivated, when arriving for their jobs at the White House.
What's still developing
- The three news outlets banned from the White House by President Donald Trump said they planned to file a First Amendment lawsuit on Monday to restore their access.
- In the lawsuit, the news outlets are asking a federal judge to immediately restore their access, which was denied on Saturday, a day after Trump announced he was restricting them from entry to the White House grounds.
- The outlets are seeking a temporary restraining order and injunction to prohibit the ban from being enforced and to require that their access be restored, as well as a declaratory ruling.
- CNN, Politico and MS NOW are suing Donald Trump and other White House officials after the president banned him from the complex.
- Boutrous Jr., who represented CNN’s Jim Acosta when his credentials were revoked in Trump’s first term, as well as others at Gibson Dunn, including Katie Townsend and Patrick Fuster.
- And the public at large suffers for however long the unconstitutional ban restricts access to current and complete information about their government.
- Speaking at Colgate University, Obama questioned what the reaction would have been if his administration had blocked Fox News from accessing the White House.
- “My imagination could not foresee some of the stuff that’s going on right now,” Obama says Former President Barack Obama criticized President Donald Trump’s decision to bar CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House, saying he could not imagine taking a similar step during his presidency.
- The administration ultimately abandoned the plan when other networks defended the inclusion of Fox.
- On Saturday morning, MS NOW, formerly MSNBC, said in a statement on X that their journalists were unable to access the White House grounds.
- However, Gardner said an MS NOW producer was able to access the grounds.