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Media Calls Out Breaches in Protocol by Trump Team

November 11, 2016 By WHC Insider

The Press Room at the debate, Photo Courtesy of Haddad Media

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Donald Trump’s transition team was criticized by the media for two breaches in traditional protocol.  Both incidents centered on the President-elect’s staffers failing to notify reporters of the President-elect’s schedule and Trump travelling without his travelling press corps.

The White House press corps was not informed of Trump’s plans to return to New York Thursday after his first meeting with President Obama after the election.

On “The Situation Room,” CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, a former White House correspondent, noted that “it is truly unacceptable.  The President-elect and the President.  A pool of reporters should be with them on a trip like that.”

Earlier on Thursday, the White House Correspondents’ Association rebuked the President-elect’s team for Trump leaving his travelling press corps in New York as he journeyed to Washington.

“The White House Correspondents’ Association is deeply concerned by President-elect Donald Trump’s decision to reject the practice of traveling with a ‘protective pool’ of reporters for his first visit to Washington since the election,” Jeff Mason, the president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, said on CNNMoney.

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Filed Under: 2016 election, Donald Trump, News Media, Protocol, The White House, Uncategorized, Washington Insider

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