“The dinner has long served as a symbol of the vital and irreplaceable role of a free press in American democracy and a celebration of the First Amendment and the journalists who uphold it,” the group wrote in a letter. “President Trump’s systematic, sustained and unprecedented attacks on the free press … render his presence at such an event a profound contradiction of its purpose.”
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Two questions come to mind about this years White House Correspondence Dinner (WHCD), neither of which have anything to do with security or the shooting. One, why did The White House Correspondence Association invite Trump to their gala celebrating freedom of speech considering his dismal record of stomping on the first amendment? And two, why would any member of the press even consider going and breaking bread with him and his shady cohorts?
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