President Trump is talking to the press in the Oval Office next to a map he renamed the “Gulf of America” on March 26th. The administration refused to access the press associated with such events, because the body of the water calls the “Gulf of Mexico”, even if it accepts its preferable name.
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On Tuesday, a Federal Judge ordered Trump White House to allow press journalists to return to the oval office and other fields, and decided that it was illegal to prevent a dispute that he chose the news service to meet the news events.
However, an EP correspondent and photographer returned to joining a reporting pool on a presidential highway on Tuesday evening, almost two hours after the decision of the decision.
The AP had angered the White House because President Trump’s preferred name: refused to call the Gulf of America and the Gulf of Mexico. The EP admits that the US government is now calling it the Gulf of America, but the news service is still more familiar, traditional assignment – especially for serving international customers.
Trump and his assistants have prevented the White House reporters from dozens of activities since February; This is limited to the reporting pool that shares details with other sales points. The AP has been participating in this pool for more than a century. The White House argued that it was a privilege to cover Trump closely – something he controlled.
US Regional Court judge Trevor N. McFadden, Trump appointed person, the Trump administration’s EP correspondents decided that the reason for prohibiting it is important.
“[T]In accordance with the first amendment, if the government opens its doors to some journalists – oval office, the eastern room or elsewhere – can then close these gates to other journalists because of these perspectives.
The judge wrote that the White House did not prevent the president from choosing to interview. McFadden added that the administration does not require the administration to accept all appropriate journalists, even any journalist to the public areas of government, as an oval office.
McFadden, “The government has repeatedly characterized the AP’s request as ‘extra special access’ as a request for ‘extra private access’.” But that’s not what the EP wants, and that’s not the court orders. All the AP wants and receives all the only playground. “
President Trump, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, White House Chief of General Staff Susie Wiles and Deputy Chief of the General Staff Taylor Budowich, EP’s White House journalists in the oval office or the Air Force since the emergence of the issue of the Gulf clearly pointed out the dispute. In some cases, photographers and EP reporters based on abroad were allowed.
After making an official complaint in the mid -February, Wiles wrote back to say that Wiles rejected the Editorial selection of the EP in the middle of February to say that “the proper authority of the president, who was selected in accordance with,”.
Wiles said that other options reflected in the Style book of AP, which informs people in other news rooms around the world, reflect the prejudice.
“We believe that the American people deserve neutrality from those who are privileged enough to enjoy some of the most important moments of history.”
The White House did not offer a response to McFadden’s order, which will be valid for a full attempt.
EP spokesman Lauren Easton said the wire service was satisfied with the court’s decision.
“Today’s decision confirms the right to speak freely without the state retaliation of the press and the people,” Easton said in a statement. He said. “This is a guaranteed freedom for all Americans in the US Constitution. We are looking forward to continuing to maintain the real, non -partisan and independent scope of the White House for billions of people in the world.”
After making the White House reduce his sentence in February, Associated Press filed a lawsuit and said that the White House was part of the rotating pool of news organizations that lasted more than a century. He claimed that the previous court decisions had identified the precedents that prevented the White House from preventing the punishment of journalists.
Nevertheless, AP’s lead trial lawyer Charles Tobin argued that Trump officials have done it many times. The management checked which journalists from the White House Correspondents Association, a group of media organizations covering the White House routinely, who has determined which journalists participated in this pool.
“The AP has now spent 44 days in the penalty box, Tob Tobin said at a court hearing on 27 March.
McFadden’s decision was very careful about the evidence developed at the hearing, where the government did not bring any witnesses. Two of the EP’s most senior White House journalists witnessed the open court.
Washington’s chief photographer of Wire Service in Evan Vucci, AP’s Reuters and New York Times For images from smaller events in Oval Office, Air Force One and Mar-A-Lago. He called it “Heroes” to share their competitors, but they said that they hide the best photos and that they usually sent 45 minutes after sharing with their customers. This meant that the AP was behind his competitors. Vucci usually told the court that he could forward photos to his editors within 30 to 40 seconds.
He pointed out the scope of Trump’s tense change in the Oval Office with the President of Ukrainian Ukrainian Zelenskyy: the primary photograph transmitted by AP, taken by a Ukrainian AP Video, showed that the two leaders appeared calm; Their screaming match was nothing else.
“We’ve died in big news stories in water.” “This was all of us – speed and quality.”
In an earlier session, the judge rejected McFadden AP’s request for a temporary limitation order. At the hearing in March, he struggled to see how the dispute damages the EP – a component required for the pre -order that the EP is looking for. However, in his decision on Tuesday, the judge found the evidence and logic of the EP compelling and “important, concrete damage”.
The Trump administration’s treatment to the EP is just part of a war against the US news media. Trump previously sued ABC and CBS; The first settled. Chief broadcasting Editor FCC President Brendan Carr, ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR and PBS launched investigations. In particular, the FOX broadcasting network of Trump Ally Rupert Murdoch is not among them.
“Associated Press’s chairman Trump’s case against the White House for everyone who thinks about the name of a water bass, think bigger,” Pace wrote On the pages of view Wall Street Journal (Belongs to Trump Ally Rupert Murdoch) in late March. “This is really about whether the government can control what you say.”
In his work, Pace argued that saliva contains important risks.
“The EP has no corporate owner and shareholder,” Pace wrote. “If we do not step into defending the right to speak freely for the Americans, who will be? Today the US government wants to control the AP’s speech. It may be someone else tomorrow.”
Judge McFadden confirmed the extensive sweeping of the argument of the news service.
“The court only declares that the exclusion of the EP is contrary to the first change and prevents the government from maintaining this illegal path.”
