{"id":11580,"date":"2026-10-17T03:33:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T03:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/?p=11580"},"modified":"2026-10-17T03:33:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T03:33:58","slug":"%f0%9f%8e%99%ef%b8%8f-leavitt-defends-trump-white-house-press-access-as-media-rules-face-scrutiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/?p=11580","title":{"rendered":"\ud83c\udf99\ufe0f Leavitt Defends Trump White House Press Access as Media Rules Face Scrutiny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is defending the Trump administration\u2019s changes to presidential press access, arguing that the new approach is intended to broaden the range of journalists and news organizations covering the president rather than restrict the press.Speaking at an Axios event with co-founder Mike Allen, Leavitt said she rejects the characterization of the administration\u2019s policy as a restriction. She argued that the White House should not reserve limited spaces in the presidential press pool for the same organizations on a permanent basis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t view them as restrictions,\u201d Leavitt said, according to Axios. \u201cWe view them as opening access to more outlets, more voices, more news, journalists and outlets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The dispute centers largely on who controls the limited number of seats available when the president travels or holds events in locations that cannot accommodate the entire White House press corps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is defending the Trump administration\u2019s changes to presidential press access, arguing that the new approach is intended to broaden the range of journalists and news organizations covering the president rather than restrict the press.Speaking at an Axios event with co-founder Mike Allen, Leavitt said she rejects the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11582,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11580\/revisions\/11582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}