Trump Campaign Finishes the Election by Taking Revenge on the Media

With hours until the polls close, the Trump campaign is punishing reporters over critical stories either they or their outlets have written in recent days.

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Politico had three reporters and a photographer credentialed for the campaign’s watch party in Palm Beach, Florida. But on Tuesday, according to a source, Politico learned they’d been barred from the event over a story that Politico Magazine had published a day earlier, by a freelancer, about a white nationalist who had worked on the Trump campaign in Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania GOP fired the staffer after learning about the views he had expressed under an online alias.

The Trump campaign has taken similar punitive measures against reporters throughout this cycle, largely by cutting off their media access to campaign events. The team also earned praise for being a more sophisticated operation at the top level than they were in 2016, when the Trump campaign would deny entire news organizations press credentials for events. Banning Politico from tonight’s event suggests that, if Trump wins, the next four years might not be so different.

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