Laura Barron-Lopez: Press Pass Isn’t Just a Piece of Plastic — I Was Handing over My Ability to Cover the Presidency

RUSH EXCERPT:

BARRON-LOPEZ: “Yeah, it was striking when I was when my badge was first confiscated that morning. And Chinese press, state media are being let in and credentialed into the White House. And look, the us Secret Service officer was doing his job. I don’t fault the officer that that confiscated my badge that morning. But it’s not just about this piece of plastic I was handing over my ability to cover the presidency. And that presidency belongs to the American public. It doesn’t belong to a specific president, the Oval Office that the president sits in the desk, that he sits at, Air Force One that belongs to the American taxpayer and the American public. It doesn’t belong to the president. And I think it’s so striking when the administration is making this argument. Even Trump, when he was defending the press ban, said my. And then stopped himself and said, the people’s house. And then when Todd Blanche this weekend was defending the the press ban, he said, quote, the president has every right to decide who flies on his plane. Again.”