President Donald Trump asked aides a puzzling question as journalists from three media outlets were turned away in violation of a court order, according to a well-sourced reporter.
MS NOW’s Jonathan Lemire told “Morning Joe” that the 80-year-old president seemed confused Thursday that the press pool wasn’t on the premises despite ordering crews from MS NOW, CNN and Politico banned from the White House, and two reporters from CNN and another from MS NOW were turned away from the state dinner arrivals despite a judge ordering their reinstatement.
“You know, a couple days ago when we had said that banning media outlets would only hurt the president, I mean, here’s a perfect example of it,” host Joe Scarborough said. “You had some hero shots that he could have had coming out of the White House – video, great video, you know, yeah, state dinners, red carpet. Yeah, but it just hasn’t happened, and it hasn’t happened because, well, he banned the media.”
Lemire offered additional insight based on his sources at the White House.
“His impulsive decision a few days before not consulting with aides to ban three media outlets,” Lemire said, and he agreed with Scarborough’s assertion that aides disagreed with that move. “Right, no, because they understand that, first of all, he needs the media like he needs oxygen, like, so he would be the one to miss it. In fact, even yesterday I am told he was asking aides, ‘Where are the cameras,’ because there was no pool camera, and here’s why.”
“Just to refresh your memory, so yesterday we woke up to the news that the judge had ruled that CNN, MS NOW and Politico should have access restored to the White House, and it took a few hours for that to happen,” Lemire added.
The White House continued to deny access during the morning and the judge ordered the administration to explain by early afternoon, and Lemire said the Secret Service confiscated their badges Thursday in defiance of the court order, which undercuts claims that it took a few hours to reactivate their badges.
“Whoever gave them that order should go to jail,” Scarborough said. “I mean, that’s contempt of court. There’s an order out there. I really want to know what happened yesterday morning, and this like, I’m not saying this for an isolated reason. There will there will be a time when justice will be done for people in this administration ignoring court orders. There will be a time when the masks will be taken off of ICE agents and justice will be done for every person that they beat, for every person that they jailed, for every person that they starve, for every person that they tortured, that time is coming.”
“So I want to know,” Scarborough added. “I want somebody to take note in the White House, who gave those Secret Service agents, who defied a court order, who gave them that order to defy a federal judge? Because when you defy a federal judge, you’re in contempt.”
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