Press banned from Trump's DC hotel: report

[babylonsister]

Yet they lease the property from the government? Crazy that he's allowed to have this as a money-making asset. Why don't rules apply to him?



http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/314847-trumps-dc-hotel-bans-press-during-inauguration-week

Press banned from Trump's DC hotel: report
By Rebecca Savransky - 01/18/17 01:03 PM EST


Members of the media are not allowed on the premises of the Trump International Hotel in Washington during inauguration week, Politico reported.

“Media is not allowed in this week in respect of the privacy of our guests,” Patricia Tang, the hotel’s director of sales and marketing wrote in an email to the publication.

A Politico reporter was stopped and told "media" were not allowed in the building when he tried to enter the hotel on Wednesday morning for a breakfast meeting.

The hotel at the time was surrounded by metal barricades while police officers stood nearby the location.

Members of the media have raised questions about what kind of access they will have to Donald Trump's incoming administration when the president-elect assumes office later this week.

Trump often rails on the media, accusing reporters of dishonest and biased coverage against him.

Trump and his three adult children in 2012 won a bid to redevelop D.C.'s Old Post Office into a luxury hotel. They have a lease for the property with the federal General Services Administration.

[lindysalsagal]

1. Stoopid fool can't catch on that they can really hurt him for this

Any politician knows you have to woo the press. Oh, yeah. He's a toddler, not a politician.

My bad.

[HipChick]

2. He is in violation..

They have a 60-year lease with the federal General Services Administration, which owns the property. The lease that the GSA signed with Trump says (on page 30) that the public is allowed to access historic sections of the building "subject to such reasonable rules and time restrictions as Tenant may formulate from time to time and as approved in writing by Landlord" unless there is a "risk to public safety."

The hotel’s decision to ban media from property owned by the federal government and from a hotel controlled by the president-elect comes amid a broader debate over media access to the incoming administration. Trump has resisted forming a protective pool around him, instead opting for a “semi-protective pool” that afford the media less access than previous presidents allowed.

Further, D.C. legal code prohibits public places like hotels from denying “the full and equal enjoyment” of its facilities to people based on “source of income,” among other reasons, calling it an “unlawful discriminatory practice.” “Source of income” could reasonably include one’s occupation as a journalist.

Tang did not immediately reply to an email asking whether the hotel was in violation of this part of the lease by barring media. The GSA did not immediately reply for a request for comment.

[CincyDem]

4. Come Friday, he'll be tenant and landlord so all's good.

...nothing to see here, move along.




This is gonna be a long four years.

[dchill]

3. How is that NOT

a conflict of interest?