Karoline Leavitt Strips White House Correspondents’ Association of Its “Monopoly” Over White House Press Access

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced today that the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) will no longer hold its iron grip over deciding which outlets get a seat in the coveted White House press pool.

“This administration is shaking up Washington in more ways than one,” Leavitt said, noting, “that’s what we were elected to do.”

“A select group of DC-based journalists should no longer have a monopoly over the privilege of press access at the White House,” she added in reference to the White House Correspondents’ Association.

She said the WHCA “has long dictated which journalists get to ask questions of the President of the United States in these most intimate spaces,” but “not anymore.”

As The Gateway Pundit reported, the Associated Press asked a federal judge to grant an emergency Temporary Restraining Order against the Trump Administration and restore its access to areas in the White House after the far-left outlet was booted from the Oval Office this month over its refusal to acknowledge President Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America.”

Even Google and Apple have acknowledged the name change, but the leftist outlet didn’t want to recognize the Gulf’s new legal name.

On Monday, a federal judge denied the Associated Press’s emergency motion to restore its access to the White House press pool.

Leavitt responded to this news Monday, stating, “Covering the American presidency in the most intimate and limited spaces in this White House, in the Oval Office, on Air Force One is a privilege.” Leavitt continued, “It is not a legal right.”

The Gateway Pundit recently reported that before the AP filed its lawsuit, the WHCA’s President attacked the White House in a statement, claiming that “the White House is seeking to curtail the press freedoms enshrined in our Constitution.”

We noted how the leftist WHCA, led by Eugene Daniels, a liberal reporter for Politico, is ironically crying foul over the AP losing its privilege to access the Oval Office, an area that many other reporters, including this author, have been unable to access due to a lack of space and restrictions placed by the WHCA.

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