Former President Barack Obama went viral last week to clash President Trump’s latest moves to descend the media from the White House pool, asking what reaction he would have been if he had made it during his presidency.
“Imagine if I had done any of these. Imagine if I had drawn Fox News credentials” from the White House press troops, “mourned Obama during remarks at Hamilton College in New York on Thursday.
“You’re laughing, but that’s what’s going on.”
However, the Obama administration briefly tried to limit the entry of the Fox News press pool at the beginning of its presidency.
In 2009, the Obama administration tried to block the Fox News pool team to interview his “Czar Executive-Pagese”, Kenneth Feinberg, despite giving other shops in the pool access, while opening the network status as a news organization.
“We see Fox now as a source and exit for the points that talk about the Republican Party,” said former White House communication director Anita Dunn at the time.
“And it’s good if that’s, you know, how they want to build their own business model,” Dunn said. “And we understand that. And we are working for them and we understand that, too. But we do not think we should treat them as if they were a news organization as other news organizations are treated here.”
After all, other best television networks protested, with CNN, ABC, CBS and NBC refusing the White House plans to cut Fox News from interview with Feinberg.
Obama aside his administration attacks on Fox News at the time.
“We’ll get the media as it comes,” Obama told NBC News at the time. “And if the media is working essentially as a radio conversation format, then this is one thing, and if it doesn’t work as a news, then this is a large part. Over.â €
Despite having an accusing relationship with the network, Obama did not try to give up the Fox News press credentials and gave numerous interviews on the conservative network.
Trump has become the first president in nearly a century to take an active hand in the election of the White House pool reporter, something previously set by the White House correspondent association.
His team has interrupted Reuters, Associated Press and Bloomberg from their guaranteed pool points and replaced them with a rotary position for wire services.
The Trump administration has used two old service slots to create “new media” rotary positions for a variety of exits that previously did not have access to the pool.
Back in February, the White House informed the AP that it was disconnected from an Oval Office event for its decision not to change its style guidance from the “Gulf of Mexico” in “Gulf of America”.
The Trump administration also pulled out the correspondent of the White House HuffPost SV from its daily position of the pool reporter printed in the middle of the night last month and replaced it with an Axios reporter.
Last week, reports emerged that the White House aims to undertake the arrangement of upholstery in the press conference room, something that has been managed by the White House correspondents Association.
Since his appearance to the White House, Obama has decided largely low, occasionally reassessing to criticize his successor, especially during the campaign season.
“Imagine if I had told legal firms representing parties that were upset with policies that my administration had initiated, that you would not be allowed in government buildings,” Obama added during his words at Hamilton College.
“We will be economically punished for disagreement by the act of affordable care or the Iran Agreement. We will remove students protesting against my policies,” he added. “It is not unimaginable that the same parties that are silent would now have tolerated behavior like it from me, or a whole bunch of my ancestors.”
In recent weeks, Trump has withdrawn security letters from senior political rivals, as well as legal firms associated with his enemies.
Last month, for example, he tried to withdraw security clearances for Coie-A Law Firm linked to the Democrat who played a key role in the commissioning of the so-called Stele Dossier. A judge later intervened.
Some legal firms, such as Paul Weiss, have bowed under Trump’s pressure. Paul Weiss agreed to provide pro -bono legal services worth $ 40m for the Trump administration after the President issued an executive order that would effectively underestimate his business.
Trump has also instructed the US Attorney General We saw BONDI investigate legal firms and lawyers file “frivolous” lawsuits against his administration and come up with possible punitive measures that his team can take.
“This kind of behavior is contrary to the basic compact we have as Americans,” Obama argued.
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