White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt presented a compelling statistic about how accessible President Donald Trump has been just a year into taking office and how little the public ever saw former President Joe Biden during his term. While speaking at a media event hosted by Axios co-founder Mike Allen, Leavitt highlighted the contrast between President Donald Trump\u2019s accessibility and that of Biden. She also pointed out that many in the media overlooked Biden\u2019s avoidance of the media and his largely \u201chiding\u201d behavior during his four years in office.\u201cYou have tailed access to the \u2018Associated Press,\u2019 which reaches half the world\u2019s population every day. The most definitive photo of President Trump, the fight, fight, fight photo after the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, was made by Evan Vucci, who\u2019s the chief photographer in Washington for the \u2018Associated Press.\u2019 Do you worry about history being lost with these new restrictions?\u201d Allen asked Leavitt.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t view them as restrictions. We view them as opening access to more outlets, more voices, more news, journalists and outlets. We shouldn\u2019t have a few outlets who have a monopoly over the briefing room or over that 13 person press pool that covers the president. And so we\u2019ve actually ensured that more print outlets like Axios have a greater chance of being part of that 13 person press pool,\u201d Leavitt began. \u201cThere are thousands of outlets who have White House press credentials. There are hundreds that actually show up every day and cover the beat. Why should a single outlet have the privilege of being in that 13 person press pool every single day. And so the changes we\u2019ve made have actually created more transparency, more accessibility, and greater access for a broad variety of outlets and a diversity of journalists, which I think is a good thing. And we\u2019ve seen that play out,\u201d Leavitt added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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