White House Wanted Correspondents Chair To Condemn Politico Article
By NICOLE LAFOND Published JULY 17, 2017 8:06 AM
The president of the White House Correspondents Association said President Donald Trumps administration wanted him to publicly criticize an article Politico reporter Tara Palmeri wrote about media access.
Appearing on CNNs Reliable Sources Sunday, the correspondents association president and Reuters reporter Jeff Mason confirmed that it was Palmeris reporting hed been asked to condemn. He refused to do so and didnt reveal the name of the reporter until this weekend.
Palmeri, who was also on Reliable Sources Sunday, said she wasnt surprised by the revelations, saying she had heard the White House wanted her removed from the association.
Which they dont have power to do. Theyre an independent association. And they were upset because I wrote a story that was completely factual, that over the course of the trip, the president had not given a press conference. That is plain and simple, she said. And we also did not get access to senior administration officials regularly until my story came out. After that, we had so much more access to them.
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