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The Trump administration isn't just investigating alleged crimes.
It’s aggressively pursuing the sources behind the stories, using the legal system as a blunt instrument to stop the flow of information.
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Update: Amid an escalating battle over @CNN’s access to the president, the White House yesterday said it would block the network from traveling with Trump on Air Force One again, this time for a campaign swing today to Oklahoma and Texas:
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Explore how the administration’s banning of @CNN, @MSNOWNews, and @politico from the White House fits into the president’s pattern of attacks on the press.
This and more in this month’s newsletter from managing editor Kirstin McCudden:
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Journalist Luis Galeano was released from @ICEGov custody in Miami on Sept. 26.
Galeano faced persecution over his reporting in Nicaragua and has a pending asylum application.
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Just days after a judge temporarily reversed a White House access ban, @CNN was excluded from Air Force One and the television pool that covered President Donald Trump’s Saturday trip to a college football game in Tennessee.
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Eye on Cherokee reporter Sal Insinga was assaulted while covering a Sept. 11 protest in Cedartown, Georgia, over the police shooting of HeeHaw, a pet donkey.
Insinga’s equipment was damaged, and a man was arrested and faces a charge of disorderly conduct.
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Update: An Iowa judge dismissed President Trump’s consumer fraud lawsuit against pollster J. Ann Selzer and The Des Moines Register, ruling that a faulty poll was protected speech.
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BREAKING: Journalists from @CNN, @MSNOWNews and @Politico regained access to the White House today, after the Trump administration this morning disregarded a judge’s overnight order to restore their credentials and instead initially denied them entry.
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BREAKING: A federal judge ruled today that @CNN, @MSNOWNews and @Politico can temporarily recover press access to the White House, days after President Trump banned them.
But the administration defied the order, denying journalists entry this morning.
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The Florida Senate ordered @SunSentinel and @OrlandoSentinel to destroy a report they obtained through a public records request.
The Senate’s Sept. 15 letter warned that refusing to shred the document could lead to “civil or criminal legal implications.” pressfreedomtracker.us/all-i…
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"Overstayed his welcome": The Trump administration is ramping up its hostile environment for journalists, from American streets to the corridors of the White House.
Originally published in @CJR: pressfreedomtracker.us/blog/…
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BREAKING: The news outlets banned by President Donald Trump from accessing the White House — @CNN, @MSNOWNews and @Politico — filed a federal lawsuit today demanding their credentials be immediately reinstated.
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After @CNN, @MSNOWNews and @Politico journalists were barred from the White House on Saturday, following a Trump ban, the networks sued.
And when CNN was pulled from TV pool rotation today, networks said they’d drop pool TV coverage of Trump altogether.
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‘Overstayed his welcome’: The Trump administration is ramping up its hostile environment for journalists, from American streets to the corridors of the White House.
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Reporter Mike Emery of Indiana’s Western Wayne News was subpoenaed Aug. 28 for trial testimony in connection with his coverage of an industrial fire that displaced thousands in April 2023.
A judge struck down the request Sept. 11. pressfreedomtracker.us/all-i…
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BREAKING: Trump announced today that @CNN, @MSNOWNews and @Politico are banned from the White House, effective immediately.
While the president warned that more outlets will follow, there is no sign of steps being taken to implement his order. pressfreedomtracker.us/all-i…
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U.S.-based Nicaraguan journalist Luis Galeano was detained by @ICEGov while driving for a ride-hailing service in Orlando, Florida, on Sept. 14. Galeano, who fled into exile after government arrest orders, has an active asylum case in the U.S. pressfreedomtracker.us/all-i…
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A federal judge in Nashville, Tennessee, last week dismissed Spanish-language journalist Estefany Rodríguez’s petition over her two-week March detention by ICE.
She had asked the court for protection against future retaliation for her reporting.
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A federal judge on Sept. 14 barred the implementation of new Department of Homeland Security visa restrictions for foreign journalists, writing that, under the policy, ‘the possibilities for abuse are rampant’: pressfreedomtracker.us/all-i…
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Five reporters invited to cover an event at the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California were detained at the gates and held at gunpoint by security personnel on Aug. 17.
The base called it a 'breakdown in communication.' pressfreedomtracker.us/all-i…
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