JD Vance Goes to Bat for Trump’s Media Ban: ‘It’s About Basic Fairness’

Vice President JD Vance says he’s on board with his boss’s ban on a trio of news outlets on Monday, saying, “It’s about basic fairness.”

Vance, speaking to reporters ahead of a trip to North Carolina, was asked about President Donald Trump’s move to bar CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House, sparking a lawsuit from the jilted outlets.

“Do you think it’s appropriate for the president to be banning media outlets just because he doesn’t like what they report?” one reporter asked the veep.

“Well, I take some issue with the premise,” Vance replied. “So, he’s not banning media outlets. What he’s doing is saying, ‘We’re not gonna give you special access to the White House if you engage in what is effectively propaganda.’ We have to remember those three outlets account for about 92% of the stories that they have on the president of the United States, on the administration, are negative. That’s not representative of the American people, it’s not representative of public opinion. So if you’re gonna engage in what is effectively far-left propaganda, why would a Republican White House give you special access?”

“Sir, you talked a lot about free speech over the years,” the reporter pressed. “How is this not an attack on free speech?”

Vance replied:

Well, they can still report on the Trump White House, they can still get the public reports. They can still, of course, talk to people in the administration and outside the administration. What the President has said is we’re not gonna give you special access inside the White House. The way I think about it is if you go back to the Biden administration or the Obama administration.

Compare, let’s say, Politico to Breitbart, if you actually look at the objective analysis, Politico and Breitbart are- Politico is as anti-Trump as Breitbart was anti-Obama or anti-Biden. Now why on God’s green Earth would Donald Trump be expected to give Politico special access when nobody in the media expected the Biden administration or the Obama administration to give Breitbart special access? It’s about basic fairness.

They can still report, they still have the access to free speech. They’re just not going to get an office in the White House anymore, and I think it’s totally appropriate, unless, of course, they start to behave like real news organizations.

Trump announced in a Truth Social post on Friday that he was “banning” CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House, with more outlets possibly to join them.

“I am proud to announce that, effective immediately, I am banning Fake News CNN, MSNOW (who recently changed their name from MSNBC due to lack of viewership and credibility!), and Politico (The recipients of an illegal and ridiculous $8 Million Dollar subscription, an All Time Record, directly from the United States Government, under Crooked Joe Biden, in order to keep them “alive.” Seems like corruption to me!), from the White House as a result of their constant ‘reporting’ FAKE NEWS!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

“Media Outlets shouldn’t be able to constantly write or report FICTION and LIES when they’re covering the President of the United States, the Trump Administration, or the United States of America,” Trump wrote, promising, “Other Fake News Media Outlets to follow.”

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