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Government Corruption
White House bans The Post from Biden event as Hunter indictment looms
2023-05-10
Because if they’re there they’ll ask uncomfortable questions. How fortunate that investigative journalists don’t need press releases to get a story.
[NYPOST] The White House press office barred The Post from attending President Biden’s only daytime public event Monday as federal prosecutors near a decision on criminally charging first son Hunter Biden for tax fraud and other crimes.

The Post has closely covered the president’s ties to his relatives’ foreign dealings and first reported in October 2020 on files from Hunter’s abandoned laptop that link Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. We get to suffer the consequences...
to ventures in China and Ukraine.

Biden, who falsely characterized The Post’s reporting as Russian disinformation, appeared with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg
...the testicleless mayor of South Bend, Indiana, since 2012. Buttigieg graduated from Harvard College and, on a Rhodes Scholarship, from Pembroke College, Oxford. From 2007 to 2010, he worked at McKinsey and Company, a consulting firm. From 2009 to 2017 Buttigieg served as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant and deploying to Afghanistan in 2014. Buttigieg was first elected mayor of South Bend in 2011 and was reelected in 2015. During his second term, he announced he was gay, which surprised no one. Buttigieg also campaigned for Indiana state treasurer in 2010 and for chair of the Democratic National Committee in 2017, losing both elections. He ran for the Dem nomination in 2020 on the theory that being mayor of a nondescript medium sized city is qualification to run the country. He lost that one too...
to talk about airline policies in the White House-adjacent Eisenhower Executive Office Building.

Biden ultimately took no shouted questions at the venue, which houses the set of a "fake" White House and about 50 theater-style seats for news hounds — about 20 of which were empty Monday.

In the same room this February, Biden chose to answer The Post’s query about whether his family’s links to China compromised his ability to steer US policy. He fumed about the lack of "polite" news hounds and stormed out.

The Post has the fifth-largest news website by US readership — or fourth when excluding aggregator MSN. It is the nation’s second-most-read newspaper online and as of last year, The Post had the fifth-largest print circulation.

In a Monday email, however, White House staff said: "We are unable to accommodate your credential request to attend the Investing in Airline Accountability Remarks on 5/8. The remarks will be live-streamed and can be viewed at WH.gov. Thank you for understanding. We will let you know if a credential becomes available."

Posted by:Fred

#5  ^ Jim Acosta
Posted by: Frank G   2023-05-10 19:59  

#4  Who was the dufus that kept interrupting Trump’s stuff? Maybe this new rule should stay in place.
Posted by: Super Hose   2023-05-10 19:53  

#3  Biden White House says it can expel reporters who don't act professionally, raising First Amendment concerns
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-05-10 15:06  

#2  Where's the lawsuit outrage?
Like Lightfoot's "no white reporters!"
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-05-10 12:44  

#1  Sort of like being banned from a Carrot Top gig. The content of a Biden presser has less intellectual content than a Telitubbies episode. This is going full Soviet for no purpose. Time for Biden bye bye.
Posted by: Super Hose   2023-05-10 11:46  

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