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White House Removes Wall Street Journal From Scotland Trip Press Pool

The action underlines the administration’s direct control over press pool assignments following the president’s $10 billion defamation suit against the newspaper.

President Donald Trump talks to reporters on board Air Force One after leaving early from the G7 Leaders' Summit on June 16, in Calgary, Alberta.
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Overview

  • On July 21, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced that the WSJ would lose one of thirteen pool seats for President Trump’s Scotland trip.
  • The exclusion came days after Trump filed a $10 billion libel lawsuit against Dow Jones and Rupert Murdoch over the Journal’s report on a 2003 Jeffrey Epstein birthday note.
  • Since February, the White House Press Office has assumed sole authority over press pool rotations, a power formerly held by the independent White House Correspondents’ Association.
  • First Amendment groups condemned the decision as punitive toward critical reporting, and legal appeals are underway to test the administration’s new access restrictions.
  • The cancellation of WSJ reporter Tarini Parti’s planned rotation illustrates how pool exclusions can curtail real-time coverage opportunities for independent outlets.