Blanche defends Trump’s White House media ban: ‘It’s a privilege … not a right’

US attorney general argues that president is ‘sick and tired’ of inaccurate reporting by CNN, MS Now and Politico Donald Trump ’s attorney general Todd Blanche argued on Sunday that the administration banned three news outlets from the White House because it is “privilege … not a right” to be there.

Appearing on the ABC News program This Week during the second week of the White House’s dispute over press credentialing and access, Blanche also said that the administration took the decision to ban CNN, MS Now and Politico beginning on 19 September because the president was “sick and tired” of what he considered to be those media outlets’ inaccurate reporting.

Read the original report at The Guardian.