Overview

• The Wall Street Journal remains excluded from the presidential press corps on Trump’s upcoming Scotland visit after being removed from the list of accompanying media.
• Karoline Leavitt said the action responds to the newspaper’s reporting on an alleged 2003 letter from Trump to Jeffrey Epstein that included a risqué sketch.
• The White House Correspondents’ Association and other journalist groups called the exclusion “deeply troubling” and urged the administration to reinstate the WSJ.
• President Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch over the Epstein letter allegations is still pending.
• The decision follows a broader Trump administration pattern of barring critical outlets, including last year’s exclusion of the Associated Press from key presidential press pools.