After spending most of the summer refusing press credentials to major publications like the Washington Post and Politico, the Trump campaign has announced that it will finally start letting reporters from blacklisted publications do their jobs again, CNN Money reports.
“I figure they can’t treat me any worse,” Trump told CNN of the decision to lift the so-called ban, which made news last June after the candidate announced he’d be revoking credentials for the “dishonest” Washington Post.
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Starting Thursday, reporters from the Post, Politico, BuzzFeed, and the Huffington Post will be allowed press credentials for Trump’s campaign events, where they previously had to attend along with the general public. But members of the banned press circuits are hardly taking the renewed invitations as an act of kindness, and critics are worried about the effects the ban would have in the White House press briefing room should Trump take office.
“It is important to remember that this was an absurd policy to begin with and a dangerous precedent for any campaign to have set,” Huffington Post senior politics editor Sam Stein told CNN.
As CNN points out, Trump’s full-on assault on the media is more representative of someone trying to head up his own media network than a person who wants to become the leader of the Free World, but whatever.
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