Reporter Trump White House Called a ‘Mongoloid Moron’ Before Booting Off Air Force One Fires Back
CNN and The Independent lost pool access after Trump berated Andrew Feinberg, and the White House also left CNN off a South Carolina trip list.
- On Thursday, the White House removed The Independent's White House correspondent Andrew Feinberg and CNN from the traveling press pool for upcoming trips, including a campaign rally in Sioux City, Iowa.
- President Donald Trump's outbursts against Feinberg prompted the decision, following Tuesday's Oval Office press gaggle where the president berated the reporter and an official account later branded him a 'Mongoloid Moron.'
- CNN attorney Ted Boutrous warned the Justice Department of legal action this week, citing a ruling by District Judge Timothy Kelly that the administration likely violated the law by revoking press passes.
- Calling the restriction 'retaliation,' White House Correspondents' Association president Jacqui Heinrich criticized the move, while the administration defended it as a 'privilege not a right' for traveling on Air Force One.
- The administration has appealed earlier court orders to restore press passes, with White House communications director Steven Cheung arguing that restoring passes differs from allowing pool access to Oval Office events or Air Force One.
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Washington, Oct 22 (EFE).- U.S. President Donald Trump vetoed access to the Air Force One presidential plane on Thursday to The Independent journalist Andrew Feinberg, with whom he met last Tuesday during a press conference at the Oval Office. Feinberg was part of the pool, the rotating group of journalists [...] The entry Trump veto of the Air Force One to the journalist of The Independent he faced was first published in HolaNews.
A baristic insult and no more access to the »Air Force One«: A reporter of the »Independent« gets to feel the anger of the US president and his staff. The trigger was a simple question about Trump's initiative.
Reporter Trump White House Called a ‘Mongoloid Moron’ Before Booting Off Air Force One Fires Back
"Apparently the bullying wasn't enough because I did not take it quietly," The Independent's Andrew Feinberg wrote Thursday. The post Reporter Trump White House Called a ‘Mongoloid Moron’ Before Booting Off Air Force One Fires Back first appeared on Mediaite.
The Independent has said it will not be intimidated by the powerful or silenced when confronted. It was responding to US President Donald Trump's repeated attacks on the Independent's journalist Andrew Feinberg, who pointed out that the new US government whistleblower program is not as beneficial as a law that is over 160 years old.
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The Independent (US)Trump kicks The Independent off Air Force One after Oval Office meltdown
White House’s sudden change to traveling press pool comes 24 hours after the president repeatedly berated correspondent Andrew Feinberg in the Oval Office
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