Karoline Leavitt, a press secretary for the White House, defeated President Trump in a false assessment attempt. In terms of media privileges, Leavitt addressed New York Times columnist Peter Baker after making a comparison between President Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
Baker, a former Moscow editor, posted on X a statement claiming that the Trump administration’s adjustments to the media share reflect” Kremlin tactics” in an obvious attempt to weep “dictator” alongside many others who do not help President Trump. When past President Biden also altered the press corps under his management, Baker did not appear to make the same evaluation.
This reminds me of how the Kremlin took control of its own hit apparatus and secured access for only cooperative journalists, according to Baker, who was a Moscow editor in the early weeks of Putin’s rule.
Baker was shot up by Leavitt, who later wrote,” Grant me a break, Peter.”
Leavitt continued,” The President invited editors into the Oval and took queries for nearly an hour immediately after you tweeted this.” Our longer overdue and desperately needed shift to an archaic institution is precisely why we made it, you yell.
She continued, making a sharp affront to Baker,” Gone are the days where left-wing reporters posing as reporters, such as yourself, determine who gets to request what.”
When asked by The Post for a response to the change, Baker appears to have doubled down on his claim in reference to an article he wrote on Wednesday that “recalled the history of Yelena Tregubova, a former Kremlin share writer who was forced into exile from her native Russia after publishing a book detailing bribery and media censorship by the Putin regime.”
” The United States is not Russia by any means, and any comparisons risk going too far,” he wrote.” But for those of us who reported there a quarter century ago, Mr. Trump’s Washington is bringing back memories of Mr. Putin’s Moscow in the early days.
The White House’s decision to handpick favored reporters to observe the president and to exclude anyone whose coverage the administration may not like is an attempt to undermine the public’s access to independent, trustworthy information about the most powerful person in America, according to a spokesperson for The Times who also appeared to support Baker’s suggestion.
Since the beginning of the 1990s, the White House Correspondents ‘ Association has been in charge of selecting the media outlets that would be able to cover the president, but Leavitt claimed that the “group of DC-based journalists” will no longer be able to “dictate” who can ask the president questions and who can not.
Leavitt wrote,” Today, I was proud to announce that we are giving the power back to the people,” in the announcement regarding the change. The” White House Press Pool” will be established by the White House Press Team as things progress. Leavitt assured reporters that no legacy outlets would be barred.
