All posts tagged "Timothy Kelly"

Analysts were left aghast and thinking about how to reckon with President Donald Trump's insistence on banning certain media outlets from the White House.

During a Thursday segment on CNN, Jamal Simmons, the former communications director for VP Kamala Harris, said that Trump's defiance of the law will force the American people to consider what matters. The discussion came after CNN White House correspondent Kristen Holmes was restricted from the White House despite a judge's temporary order blocking Trump's media ban.

"The American people deserve a free press. They deserve a freedom of speech. We fought a revolution for that. We fought a civil war so that we could give those rights to other people. We had World War II to defend democracy," Simmons explained. "At this point, it's time for all of us to have a really, really frank conversation about where do we go from here and what kind of principles tie us together around these freedoms?"...

The lawyers for CNN and MS NOW say that President Donald Trump is basically their "lead witness" in their case to sink his media ban.

On Wednesday, U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump appointee, heard the case against Trump's media ban as he considered a temporary restraining order to block it. CNN, MS NOW and Politico were all kicked out of the White House by the media ban, but lawyers said their strategy hinged on using Trump's words against him.

Politico legal reporter Kyle Cheney wrote in a post on X, "Lawyer for Politico, CNN, MS NOW Ted Boutrous says President Trump is basically 'our lead witness' because he keeps making plain why the ban happened: he doesn't like the outlets' coverage."...