Trump bans press from all his meetings following baseless wiretap accusations against Obama

[DonViejo]

Source: RawStory



DAVID EDWARDS
08 MAR 2017 AT 11:31 ET

The White House on Wednesday reportedly banned the press corps from attending all of President Donald Trump’s meetings in the wake of his accusation that President Barack Obama ordered an illegal wiretap of his phones during the 2016 campaign.

According to White House Correspondent Mark Knoller, the press will be afforded “no chance to question him about his wiretap tweets” because media will not be allowed in any of Trump’s Wednesday meetings.

Link to tweet

Trump was scheduled to meet conservative leaders about the party’s plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act on Wednesday afternoon. The president also had scheduled meetings with Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MA), Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke, Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), and Senator Dan Sullivan (R-AK).

In a series of tweets over the weekend, Trump made the shocking claim “that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory.”

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/trump-bans-press-from-all-his-meetings-following-baseless-wiretap-accusations-against-obama/

[SHRED]

1. He's a coward...that's what bullies are

[Eliot Rosewater]

4. Between the likelihood of him nuking N Korea and the certainty

that our healthcare is going away, I wonder how much more of this people can take.

[groundloop]

20. If we were repukes we'd be screaming about 2nd Amendment remedies

[Eyeball_Kid]

26. Trumpy? A COWARD? Not surprising

Trumpy shows his COWARDICE with every day that he refuses to release his TAX RETURNS.

He's a frightened little snowflake.

[Marthe48]

2. I hope he takes his ball and goes the hell home

What a big fat lying pus-filled baby larva.

[TheBlackAdder]

38. Actually, I think he's planning on bombing someone/some country. Blackouts precede fascist actions.

[Marthe48]

41. I hope he and his henchmen are stopped before that happens

If they bomb somebody, we will be able to tell if they did it-- blathering about it, yes. Silence, no.

[herding cats]

3. He's too scared face questions on his baseless claims.

Trump is a big chicken.

[NewJeffCT]

9. I hope nobody is surprised by this

big talker, but he couldn't handle facing Megyn Kelly asking him questions about what he said before, either. And, then had to slam her behind her back as well because he was too big of a wimp to do it to her face.

[herding cats]

23. Anyone surprised has not been paying attention.

The Trump war on the media is another example of his cowardice.

[Vinca]

5. That's probably on orders from Bannon and Baby Putin.

It will last a few days then Dear Leader will require an audience and he'll hold another of his batshit crazy press conferences.

[bettyellen]

22. He's holding more rallies the next two weekends so people don't notice he is hiding-

The press needs to stop showing these rallies in full until they have a chance to sift out the propaganda and identify the blatant lies. He is manipulating them into non stop PR coverage.

[HAB911]

6. All media should boycott him going forward

[BumRushDaShow]

16. THIS

[Deuce]

27. Yes...

[halobeam]

30. 100% agreed.

[greatauntoftriplets]

7. Hiding out from the press will not stop investigations of this stupid claim.

[yallerdawg]

8. I bet Rep. Cummings asks the question!

Then gets accused of 'leaking' the conversation when he tells us the answer!

At least we'll know he most likely didn't sign Nondisclosure Agreement!

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

10. You effed up Donny no press for you

In my best soup Nazi voice

[KingBob]

11. Me thinks he is cra cra! n/t

[ffr]

12. So then, Fox Entertainment and Breitbart will be the only groups there?

[groundloop]

21. In other words - Repuke Party Propaganda Wing

[lame54]

32. InfoWars has a applied for a whitehouse press credential

[jalan48]

13. Sounds like this was planned out to me. Immigrants, terrorists. leakers, the press....

There's always someone out to get Rumpy.

[BeckyDem]

14. Coward. His supporters are morons.

[logosoco]

15. Not at all the actions of someone working for the American people.

But to be expected for this person.


He needs to go.

[LaydeeBug]

17. This makes me think he KNOWS intel has the goods on him...and he's trying to frame it

another way.

[star rises]

18. The walls are closing in.

[gopiscrap]

43. welcome to DU

[mahatmakanejeeves]

19. Today's The Wall Street Journal., lead story, page A1, above the fold:

"WikiLeaks Dumps CIA Spy Trove," was written by Shane Harris and Paul Sonne. I guess they are (some of) the reporters assigned by TWSJ. to cover *****. Let's look at their Twitter accounts:

Shane Harris: @shaneharris

Senior Writer, National Security @WSJ; Encrypted: [e-mail] Public key http://goo.gl/4IZBWW 1025 Connecticut Ave. NW, Ste. 800, W, DC 20036

Paul Sonne: @PaulSonne

Pentagon correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, by way of Moscow, London, New York. RT ≠ endorsement.

[TeamPooka]

37. what's your point here?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

40. Whoops. Thanks to wiretaps, that got omitted. The point is

to provide links to the Twitter feeds of reporters assigned to cover the White House. Those links are intertwined, so that one can see what stories those reporters are working on without needing to check the newspaper themselves.

Thanks.

[UpInArms]

24. cockroaches hide in the dark

eom

[DeminPennswoods]

25. LOL! Trump can't live w/o the media

The guy needs attention - any kind will do - and simply cannot survive without it. As was posted above, if the media ignored him and his tweets, he'd shrivel up and die, imho.

[TeamPooka]

39. "Yes Mr, President, you're scheduled for a day of work meetings with no photographers or press."

If we could do that to him every day he'd quit in a fortnight.
lol

[C_U_L8R]

28. Chicken Trump

Keeps on laying rotten eggs

[lillypaddle]

29. Bwack Bwack Bwack

chickenshit.

[LudwigPastorius]

31. He's a gutless, ball-less orange punk.

He can run and hide from his own words, but there are those out there that will question his lies at the first chance.

I'm afraid a war will be forthcoming, as he may see that as the only way to change the subject and make his laughably poor approval ratings rise.

[Angry Dragon]

33. Is Trump going to hide in his bunker??

[Corgigal]

34. Time to protest kids

Get those signs out and walk the fence. Let America know, stop whinnying and start walking. You're not in any different boat then us.

[TeamPooka]

35. GOOD! Hey Press, maybe stop giving him free press with BS photo ops that make him look like he's

a real President, not a puppet of Putin who won't take any of your questions.

[Solly Mack]

36. So he's hiding from the Press, too afraid of what they will ask him

knowing he lied.

What a coward.

He is a weakling.

I think I'll send a postcard to the WH with the word coward on it.

[SpankMe]

42. Why?

Because the man's a massive asshole. That's why.