The Ban of some news networks from the White House Press Pool

Why CNN, MS NOW, and Politico Deserved to be Banned From the White House

CNN spent years telling America that Donald Trump was a threat to democracy. Trump just threw CNN, MS NOW, and Politico out of the White House for lying to his face.

Trump didn't mince words in his Truth Social announcement Friday. "I am proud to announce that, effective immediately, I am banning Fake News CNN, MSNOW (who recently changed their name from MSNBC due to lack of viewership and credibility!), and Politico," Trump wrote, adding more bans were coming.

He also called out Politico specifically – the outlet that received an $8 million government subscription deal under Joe Biden. Eight million of your taxpayer dollars kept Politico on life support during the Biden years. Now they're suing the man who cut off their government welfare check.

Reporters from CNN and MS NOW went live Saturday to report their press badges had been deactivated when they arrived for work. Politico's White House reporter had her badge physically confiscated. The three outlets filed a joint statement calling the ban "viewpoint discrimination" that violates the First Amendment.

Here's what they left out of that statement: the Supreme Court already settled this question sixty years ago...a 1965 Supreme Court ruling that draws a hard line between the right to publish and the right to walk into any government building you want. Those are two different rights – and the First Amendment only protects one of them.

A federal appeals court sided with the White House – ruling the president has broader discretion over which journalists enter restricted spaces like the Oval Office and Air Force One.

That case is still technically pending, but the appellate ruling is already on the books. CNN, MS NOW, and Politico are walking into court to fight a legal battle where Trump's lawyers will hand the judge a ruling that already went his way.

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