HuffPost Back In White House Press Pool After Being Booted | EUROtoday

After booting a HuffPost reporter out of the pool of journalists who observe the president final month, the White House reversed course on Friday.

HuffPost White House reporter S.V. Date reported on President Donald Trump’s public actions on the White House, which included a Friday afternoon swearing-in ceremony for Alina Habba as performing U.S. lawyer for New Jersey, and Trump’s departure for his Florida property, Mar-a-Lago.

The White House press pool is accountable for monitoring the president all through the day and sending updates to the broader group of reporters who cowl the president.

Last month, the White House kicked out reporters from HuffPost, Reuters and The Associated Press from the pool, escalating a struggle that started after Trump administration officers insisted The Associated Press adjust to Trump’s choice to rename the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America.”

“HuffPost condemns this egregious violation of the First Amendment. Americans deserve fair and honest reporting on their president,” HuffPost editor-in-chief Whitney Snyder mentioned on the time. “The White House must stop this cowardly behavior and restore HuffPost’s place in the press pool immediately.”

Associated Press journalists testified in courtroom on Friday as a part of the storied information group’s effort to overturn a White House ban on with the ability to cowl occasions on its grounds. The outlet has denounced the ban as a basic assault on freedom of speech.

“For anyone who thinks the Associated Press’s lawsuit against President Trump’s White House is about the name of a body of water, think bigger,” AP govt editor Julie Pace wrote in an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday. “It’s really about whether the government can control what you say.”