https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/21/journal-removed-white-house-pool-epstein-00465548
The White House is removing the Wall Street Journal from the pool of reporters covering the president’s weekend trip to Scotland, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told POLITICO.
The move follows the Journal’s report alleging that President Donald Trump sent a sexually suggestive message to Jeffrey Epstein in 2003.Trump has denied the existence of the letter and POLITICO has not verified it.
Tarini Parti, a White House reporter for the Wall Street Journal, had been scheduled to serve as the print pooler for the final two days of Trump’s four-day trip to his golf courses in Turnberry and Aberdeen, Scotland.
But the White House, which earlier this year took over control of pool rotations from the White House Correspondents’ Association, removed her from the trip manifest, Leavitt said.
Parti was not one of the two bylines on the Epstein story.
“As the appeals court confirmed, the Wall Street Journal or any other news outlet are not guaranteed special access to cover President Trump in the Oval Office, aboard Air Force One, and in his private workspaces,” Leavitt said in a statement. “Due to the Wall Street Journal’s fake and defamatory conduct, they will not be one of the thirteen outlets on board. Every news organization in the entire world wishes to cover President Trump, and the White House has taken significant steps to include as many voices as possible.”
A Journal spokesperson declined to comment.
A White House spokesperson declined to comment on whether the Journal would be included in the pool in the future, either on the White House campus or on subsequent trips.
Multiple journalists in the Wall Street Journal’s Washington bureau also declined to comment.
CBS News correspondent Weijia Jiang, who took over as the president of the White House Correspondents’ Association earlier this month, issued a statement criticizing the move.
“This attempt by the White House to punish a media outlet whose coverage it does not like is deeply troubling, and it defies the First Amendment,” Jiang said. “Government retaliation against news outlets based on the content of their reporting should concern all who value free speech and an independent media. We strongly urge the White House to restore the Wall Street Journal to its previous position in the pool and aboard Air Force One for the President’s upcoming trip to Scotland. The WHCA stands ready to work with the administration to find a quick resolution.”
Trump on Friday filed a lawsuit against the newspaper over its report detailing his innuendo-laced birthday message to the disgraced financier and sex offender. The president, who is seeking at least $10 billion in damages, has dismissed the reported birthday greeting described by the WSJ as fake. The newspaper, however, has said it stands by the reporting.
The one-time removal of a reporter from the travel pool, if that’s the extent of the White House’s response, would amount to a more measured response than Trump took earlier this year against the Associated Press. When the newswire announced a policy not to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America,” the White House booted the organization’s reporters and photographers from all pools.
I voted for this man three times, fully aware that he raped a 13 year old girl.
I would vote for him again.
>>1421438https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAXHr0qccvE
Men walked up to me ... big strong men ... with tears in their eyes saying to me, "Mister President, would you please rape my young daughter."
>>1421441I've personally heard this no less than five times. FIVE!!
>>1421421 (OP)>The move follows the Journal’s report alleging that President Donald Trump sent a sexually suggestive message to Jeffrey Epstein in 2003.So where's the message and picture?
>>1421443https://www.wsj.com/politics/trump-jeffrey-epstein-birthday-letter-we-have-certain-things-in-common-f918d796
>>1421421 (OP)Why did they remove her from Trump's presence? Was she over 16?
>>1421421 (OP)you're now on trump's no fly list if you leave america expect to be interrogated and detained on the way back.
>>1421438people have no qualms about being blatantly evil anymore. godless world.
>>1421441And I gave her an All-American handshake up her hairless cunny, saying, right up until I came, "After I get the Talisman of Aamon, she's gonna be my Press Secretary."
>>1421441Gram 'em by their hairless pussies!
>>1421438thanks for proving me all americans are mentally ill
>>1421438Thank you for stating your degeneracy, you Satanist paedophile.
>>1421478Well, someone could try giving us a cantidate who will remove all the browns and also has a spotless record, and then we'd vote for him instead. Ultimately the cause we're voting for doesn't really have anything to do with what he gets up to in his personal life.
