{"id":2464893,"date":"2025-07-21T18:10:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T22:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-boots-wsj-from-press-pool-after-epstein-report\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T18:15:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T22:15:58","slug":"white-house-boots-wsj-from-press-pool-after-epstein-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-boots-wsj-from-press-pool-after-epstein-report\/","title":{"rendered":"White House boots WSJ from press pool after Epstein report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhite-house-boots-wsj-from-press-pool-after-epstein-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2464893&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Teh White House has removed the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ny-times-maggie-haberman-attacks-president-trump-over-white-house-reporters-having-to-work-early-on-christmas-eve\/\" title=\"NY Times\u2019 Maggie Haberman Attacks President Trump Over ... Reporters Having to Work Early on Christmas Eve\">press pool<\/a> covering President Donald TrumpS upcoming trip to Scotland, following the newspaper&#8217;s reporting on Trump&#8217;s connection to Jeffrey Epstein. The WSJ had reported that Trump wrote a letter to Epstein for his 50th birthday, a story that led Trump to file a lawsuit against the paper, its parent company, and the reporters involved. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stated that due to the WSJ&#8217;s &#8220;fake and defamatory conduct,&#8221; the outlet would not be among the thirteen media organizations allowed pool access on the trip. This decision is part of a broader pattern during Trump&#8217;s second term, where the White House has limited certain <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >news organizations&#8217; access<\/a>, including previously restricting the Associated Press and adjusting the composition of the press pool. It remains unclear whether the WSJ&#8217;s exclusion applies onyl to the Scotland trip or to future events as well.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Wall Street Journal gets the boot from Trump&rsquo;s trip to Scotland after Epstein story<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2176756\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>The White House removed the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> from the coverage pool for President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trump'\">Donald Trump<\/a>&lsquo;s trip to Scotland following the outlet&rsquo;s coverage of Trump&rsquo;s relationship with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jeffrey-epstein\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Jeffrey Epstein\">Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is headed across the pond this weekend for a meeting with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3470083\/trump-second-state-visit-uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer\">U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer<\/a> and is expected to visit his golf properties in Scotland.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/3477107\/trump-officials-sanctuary-city-cbp-officer-shot-nyc\/\">Trump officials blast sanctuary city mayors after off-duty CBP officer shooting in NYC<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3476990\/how-involved-trump-commanders-stadium-deal\/\">Here&#8217;s how involved Trump can get in the Commanders stadium deal<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3476996\/scott-bessent-focused-quality-of-deal-not-timing-tariffs\/\">Scott Bessent focused on &#8216;quality of the deal, not the timing&#8217; on tariffs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>The <em>WSJ <\/em>was slated to serve as the print pooler for the final two days of the trip, but White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed Monday afternoon that would no longer be the case. The outlet reported last week that Trump wrote a letter to Epstein that was collected as part of a gift for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jeffrey-epstein-obsession-causes-maga-to-turn-on-patel-and-bongino-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"... obsession causes MAGA to turn on Patel and Bongino- Washington Examiner\">disgraced financier&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s 50th birthday. On Friday afternoon, Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3476214\/trump-sues-wall-street-journal-libel-epstein-birthday-letter-story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"sue the paper,\">sued the outlet<\/a>, its parent company, and the two reporters on the story&rsquo;s byline.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;As the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-says-feds-cant-selectively-prosecute-right-wing-rioters-while-ignoring-antifa\/\" title=\"Judge: Feds Can&#039;t Pick and Choose, Must Prosecute All Rioters Equally\">appeals court confirmed<\/a>, the<em> Wall Street Journal <\/em>or any other news outlet is not guaranteed special access to cover President Trump in the Oval Office, aboard Air Force One, and in his private workspaces. Thirteen diverse outlets will participate in the press pool to cover the President&rsquo;s trip to Scotland,&rdquo; Leavitt said in a statement. &ldquo;Due to the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>&lsquo;s fake and defamatory conduct, they will not be one of the thirteen outlets on board. Every news organization in the entire world wishes to cover President Trump, and the White House has taken significant steps to include as many voices as possible.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>White House officials declined to say whether the <em>WSJ<\/em> would be barred from all future pooling opportunities or just the Scotland trip.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&rsquo;t the first time the White House has directly clashed with news outlets during Trump&rsquo;s second term.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, the White House wrested control of the protective pool from the White House Correspondents&rsquo; Association, opting instead to determine on its own terms the order and frequency with which news outlets fill the 13 pool slots on any given day.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Trump previously barred the <em>Associated Press<\/em> from all pool coverage opportunities after it refused to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America in line with Trump&rsquo;s executive name change.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/technology\/3475529\/uk-new-penalties-apple-google-trade-discussions-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>UK MOVING ON NEW PENALTIES FOR APPLE AND GOOGLE AMID TRADE TALKS WITH TRUMP<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <em>AP<\/em> sued the White House over the decision, but the ruling allowed the White House to also remove <em>Bloomberg<\/em> and <em>Reuters<\/em> from the daily pool and move the three outlets into the broader, monthly print rotation.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives for the <em>WSJ<\/em> did not return requests for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2176756\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2176756\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wall Street Journal excluded from Trump&#8217;s Scotland trip coverage after Epstein report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2464894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/trump-wsj.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[51150,32127,20677],"class_list":["post-2464893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-press-pool","tag-white-house","tag-wsj"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/trump-wsj.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2464893"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2464897,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464893\/revisions\/2464897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2464894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2464893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2464893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2464893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}