Time to ban the entire White House Correspondence Association from all press gatherings.
"The White House attempted to force CNN’s Kaitlan Collins to give up her assigned seat and move to the back row of the briefing room on Friday, and reportedly threatened to get the Secret Service involved if she would not comply. When the print reporter that the White House press officials wanted her to swap seats with refused to budge, they backed down.
Hours after Friday’s briefing, which abruptly concluded after 22 minutes with the president refusing to answer any questions from the press, CNN’s Jim Acosta revealed that Trump officials had attempted a last-minute rearrangement of the press seats, which are assigned by the White House Correspondents’ Association, not the Trump administration.
“Just to show you the Soviet-style totalitarian-like lengths they were going to, this evening, they were trying to rearrange the seats in the briefing room, so our colleague Kaitlan Collins would be stuck in the back row and another moved to the front of the briefing room,” Acosta explained. “[Washington Blade reporter] Chris Johnson, thank goodness for him, refused to get up out of his seat. So, it took almost an act of civil disobedience to foil their plans. One White House official was saying ‘We’re going to get the Secret Service involved if you don’t switch seats around.'”
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