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by Brett T.
This story’s been up for a couple of hours. It’s too bad Brian Stelter isn’t at CNN so he could report on the attack on press freedom. Where’s Oliver Darcy? Where are all the journalists who stood together during the Trump administration to demand access and transparency? They were never there for Fox News, and they aren’t there for the New York Post either, which was subjected to the most blatant censorship campaign in our memory … maybe even in history.
President Joe Biden had an event Monday where he and Transportation Secretary Pete “Personal Time” Buttigieg talked about airline policies, but the New York Post says it was barred from attending.
White House bans The Post from Biden event as Hunter indictment looms https://t.co/MRhbq3xgX0 pic.twitter.com/CJhcN4sE7K
— New York Post (@nypost) May 8, 2023
Steven Nelson reports:
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 Biden to ventures in China and Ukraine.
Biden, who falsely characterized The Post’s reporting as Russian disinformation, appeared with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg 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 reporters — about 20 of which were empty Monday…
