President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance announced a DOJ-run incentive program this afternoon that will offer tipsters money for helping root out fraud.
\n\nAttorneys for CNN sent a letter to the Trump administration yesterday, demanding the White House restore the news organization’s access to Air Force One and the Oval Office or face more legal action.
\n\n“If the White House has an unstated policy of excluding CNN from the Oval Office and Air Force One as punishment for its reporting, that retaliatory and viewpoint-discriminatory policy would violate the Due Process Clause and the First Amendment for the same reasons underlying the district court’s October 13 preliminary injunction ruling,” attorney Ted Boutrous wrote to the Justice Department and White House counsel Will Scharf in a letter obtained by NBC News.
\n\n“That is because those spaces belong not to any particular president or administration but to all Americans, and CNN and other members of the press serve as surrogates for the public when covering the White House,” Boutrous added.
\n\nCNN has been barred from “fully performing its pool duties and has been denied access to Air Force One each time CNN has been scheduled to do so—no fewer than four…
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