Trump bars CNN, Politico, MS NOW from White House after aide shows him critical clips
President Trump has banned three news outlets from White House access; CNN reported that aide Natalie Harp showed him the coverage beforehand.
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What to know
- Trump barred three news outlets—CNN, Politico, and MS NOW—from White House access.
- CNN reported that White House aide Natalie Harp showed Trump news coverage before the ban, suggesting her involvement in the decision.
- The outlets were denied access without stated formal justification beyond CNN's report of Harp's role.
“CNN reported Monday that White House aide Natalie Harp showed President Donald Trump news clips before he barred CNN, Politico, and MS NOW from the White House.”
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CNN reports Natalie Harp showed Trump critical coverage before ban
CNN reported that White House aide Natalie Harp showed President Trump news clips before he barred the outlets, indicating her potential role in prompting the decision.
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3 outlets first by Forbes, 2d ago · also Newsweek, Breitbart · read ↗
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BREAKING: SERIOUSLY!? Natalie Harp was the one responsible for Trump's disastrous decision to ban CNN, Politico, and MS NOW from the White House — and the details are jaw-dropping. This scandal just gets weirder and weirder... According to "people familiar with the matter" who
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The Natalie Harp story started off as a joke, a sign of how pathetic Trump has become. But the latest revelations show that she's really quite dangerous. She knows how to manipulate the doddering narcissist, and it's scary. https://www. salon.com/2026/09/23/natalie-h arp-isnt-a-joke-she-is-trumps-dangerous-enabler/
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Trump bars CNN, Politico, MS NOW from White House — President Trump banned three news outlets from White House access.
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On Friday, seemingly out of nowhere, Donald Trump banned CNN, POLITICO and MS NOW from the White House after whining for the umpteenth time about “Fake News,” his decade-long catchphrase to demonize accurate but unflattering press coverage. (It remains unclear if the president, whose paternal grandfather was from Germany, knows the term is an…
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No, we were never doing that. Not dignifying the rest of this epstien bot shillery with a response.
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"She is actively dangerous." -- @ AmandaMarcotte on # NatalieHarp . https://www. salon.com/2026/09/23/natalie-h arp-isnt-a-joke-she-is-trumps-dangerous-enabler/ # uspol
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Because they could not tolerate that a black man was president and did a good job.
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The president has a full-time human printer who feeds him screenshots of strangers calling him great, then slips him clips of anchors being mean, so he lashes out, bans them, and moves on. That is the OS of the executive branch. Natalie Harp holds the leash, and everyone in the building knows it. Natalie Harp isn't a joke — sh...
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From the commentary: >This new wrinkle in the Harp story, though, suggests that she’s not just a human Band-Aid for Trump’s insecurities — she is actively dangerous. It’s unclear why she apparently showed the president clips that were guaranteed to anger him, but the result is that he launched the most serious assault in his ongoing war on the…
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President Trump’s aide Natalie Harp showed him clips of media coverage last week before he banned Politico, CNN and MS NOW from the White House. With CNN banned from covering the White House and fulfilling its pool responsibilities, the rest of the major TV networks are standing