White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt torched New York Times reporter Peter Baker on Tuesday evening for whining about the White House control over who is in the press pool of reporters who follow the president and get to ask him questions.
“Having served as a Moscow correspondent in the early days of Putin’s reign, this reminds me of how the Kremlin took over its own press pool and made sure that only compliant journalists were given access,” Baker complained on X.
He claimed that the White House removing the Associated Press from the briefing room for not accurately reporting the name of the “Gulf of America” was a sign that it would kick out any news organization if the administration “does not like their questions or stories.”
“Every president of both parties going back generations subscribed to the principle that a president doesn’t pick the press corps…
