Reporter: You talked a lot about free speech over the years. How is President Trump BANNING CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House grounds not an attack on free speech?
Vice President JD Vance: “They can still report on the Trump White House. They can still get the public reports. They can still, of course, talk to people in the administration and outside the administration. What the president has said is we're not going to give you special access inside the White House.”
“The way that I think about it is if you go back to the Biden administration or the Obama administration, compare, let's say, Politico to Breitbart. If you actually look at the objective analysis… Politico is as anti-Trump as Breitbart was anti-Obama or anti-Biden.”
“Now, why on God's green earth would Donald Trump be expected to give Politico special access when nobody in the media expected the Biden administration or the Obama administration to give Breitbart special access?”
“It's about basic fairness. They can still report. They still have access to free speech. They're just not going to get an office in the White House anymore. And I think it's totally appropriate unless, of course, they start to behave like real news organizations.”