White House Restricts Press Access To Trump-Kim Meeting

President Donald Trump meets North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019, in Hanoi. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci) President Donald Trump has dinner with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019, in Hanoi. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)
President Donald Trump meets North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019, in Hanoi. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)
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HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — The White House is restricting press access to President Donald Trump’s summit in Vietnam with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un.

Four print reporters, including one from The Associated Press, were prohibited from covering the beginning of Trump’s dinner with Kim in Hanoi on Wednesday. That came after two of those reporters asked questions of the president during earlier events at the summit.

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders released a statement that due to the “sensitive nature of the meetings we have limited the pool for dinner to a smaller group.”

Sanders initially said no reporters would be allowed into the dinner. But after photographers said they would not cover it without an editorial presence, one print reporter and a radio reporter were allowed in.

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Follow all of AP’s summit coverage at https://apnews.com/Trump-KimSummit

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  1. Got something to hide? We know you like to keep things private you wannabe dictator.

  2. Avatar for vonq vonq says:

    Either selling us up the river again or just doesn’t want the embarrassment of a public witness witnessing foreign ministers laughing at him, again.

  3. Why is the AP asking questions? They are just going to print conservative bullshit regardless.

  4. Good lord…Reporters ask questions about tweets Dapper Donnie sent out about Cohen and get banned because they weren’t covering ‘The Summit’…Then they get banned from the dinner…wanna bet how many No. Koreans were in there to be able to spread THEIR propaganda…the Press ‘fights’ back and gets two people in. Meanwhile, in THIS country Rudy and Jr. are INSISTING that of all the known lies in the Trump Universe ONLY Cohen is the real liar and if the DEMOCRATS didn’t hate Trump so much we would KNOW that…and then they all scream ‘fake news’.

  5. one print reporter and a radio reporter were allowed in

    WHO?

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