Trump Campaign Won’t Credential Bloomberg News Until It Investigates 2020 Democrats

Trump Campaign Won’t Credential Bloomberg News Until It Investigates 2020 Democrats
Trump 2020 campaign manager Brad Parscale at President Donald Trump's MAGA rally in Grand Rapids, Mich., on March 28, 2019. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times
Jack Phillips
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President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign will not issue press credentials to Bloomberg News until it restarts investigating 2020 Democratic candidates after its billionaire founder, Michael Bloomberg, announced his presidential bid.

“The decision by Bloomberg News to formalize preferential reporting policies is troubling and wrong,” Brad Parscale, President Trump’s reelection campaign manager, said in a statement on Monday, according to several news reports. “As President Trump’s campaign, we are accustomed to unfair reporting practices, but most news organizations don’t announce their biases so publicly,” he added.

“Bloomberg News has declared that they won’t investigate their boss or his Democrat competitors, many of whom are current holders of high office, but will continue critical reporting on President Trump,” Parscale wrote. “Since they have declared their bias openly, the Trump campaign will no longer credential representatives of Bloomberg News for rallies or other campaign events.”

The letter from President Trump's reelection campaign. (Trump Campaign)
The letter from President Trump's reelection campaign. Trump Campaign

Parscale said the campaign will make a decision on interfacing with individual Bloomberg reporters or answering questions.

“This will remain the policy of the Trump campaign until Bloomberg News publicly rescinds its decision,” he said.

Last month, the news outlet’s editor announced in a letter to staff it won’t investigate the former New York City mayor or other Democratic candidates but said Trump is fair game.
Newly announced Democratic presidential candidate, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks during a press conference to discuss his presidential run in Norfolk, Virginia on Nov. 25, 2019. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Newly announced Democratic presidential candidate, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks during a press conference to discuss his presidential run in Norfolk, Virginia on Nov. 25, 2019. Drew Angerer/Getty Images

“For the moment, our P&I team will continue to investigate the Trump administration, as the government of the day,” said Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait. “If Mike is chosen as the Democratic presidential candidate (and Donald Trump emerges as the Republican one), we will reassess how we do that.”

He added, “We will continue our tradition of not investigating Mike (and his family and foundation) and we will extend the same policy to his rivals in the Democratic primaries. We cannot treat Mike’s democratic competitors differently from him.”

After Trump’s campaign made the announcement, Micklethwait claimed that Bloomberg News is not biased against Trump.

“We have covered Donald Trump fairly & in an unbiased way since he became a candidate,” he told Fox Business on Monday. “And will continue to do so despite the restrictions imposed by the Trump campaign.”
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