(Washington) The White House removed the Wall Street Journal From the list of journalists who will travel this weekend with Donald Trump in Scotland, after a daily article on the relationship between the American president and the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
“Due to the false and defamatory behavior of Wall Street Journalthey will not be one of the thirteen media traveling on board “of the Air Force One presidential plane, as was originally planned, said on Monday the spokesperson for the White House, Karoline Leavitt, in a statement transmitted to AFP.
The 79 -year -old billionaire goes to Scotland, where he has two golf complexes from July 25 to 29 for a private visit, during which he met British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
Donald Trump had already attacked the Wall Street Journal And his boss Rupert Murdoch after the publication of an article attributing him a health letter addressed to Jeffrey Epstein, an embarrassing revelation for the Republican President.
He is indeed accused by some of his supporters of not keeping his promises of transparency about this rich financier to the abundant address book, charged for sexual trafficking in minors in 2019 and which was found dead in his prison cell before being tried.
Since the return to power of Donald Trump in January, the White House, among other attacks against the press, has taken over the composition of the “pool”, the small group of journalists who follows the president as close as possible and until then organized by the media themselves via the association of correspondents at the White House.
For example, the American executive has dismissed the prestigious American Associated Press agency, a historic pillar of the “pool”, because it continues to use the name “Gulf of Mexico” and not that of “Gulf of America” wanted by the American president.
Photo Evan Vucci, Associated Press Archives
A small group of journalists called the “pool” follows the American president in each of his trips.
The White House, on the other hand, invited for some trips to influencers and content creators claiming to be the “Maga” movement (Make America Great Again).
The death of Jeffrey Epstein fueled a number of conspiracy theories that he was murdered to prevent revelations involving leading personalities.
Figures close to the Trumpist movement has been campaigning for years for the publication of a supposed list of customers of this friend of the stars and powerful, of which Donald Trump was close.
But on July 7, the Ministry of Justice and the Federal Police, the FBI, assured that there was no evidence of the existence of such a list or blackmail towards certain personalities, aroused a surge of furious messages coming from “Maga” accounts on social networks.
