According to a Huffington Post report on the matter, Donald Trump’s restrictions on the press reach chilling new low, Trump placed the Post on his campaign’s media blacklist last month because he thought one of its headlines was unfair. First, a private security official told him he couldn’t enter with his laptop and cellphone.
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When he returned without his equipment, event staff asked that sheriff’s deputies pat him down, which they did with DelReal’s consent, Misko said.
After the officials determined DelReal was not carrying a phone, the security person still declined his entrance into the event.
“You know, in NASCAR, they say rubbing is racing”, Pence said at the time. You have to go, ‘ ” DelReal said. “Now, state police officers, in collusion with private security officials, subjected a reporter to bullying treatment that no ordinary citizen has to endure”, Martin Baron, the executive editor of the Post, said in a statement to WISN 12 NEWS.
Pence’s comments came after assurances that Trump would pick a strict constitutionalist to replace the late Antonin Scalia.
Our sister station in Green Bay had the chance to speak with Pence and asked what he hopes his campaign will deliver.
“This is not our policy”, the official told the Post.
Among the hundreds of people Trump has insulted have also been former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (“choked like a dog”), Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (“an incompetent judge”) and even Hewitt himself, whom he called “a 3rd rate “gotcha” guy”.
“I’ll always believe that marriage is between one man and one woman”, he said.
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“We’re not going to let them”, he continued. The reporter, later identified as Jose A. DelReal from the Washington Post, was not present for this previously scheduled sweep.
