Daily Beast - The top Washington photographer for the Associated Press (AP) told a judge on Thursday the White House’s ban on its staffers was crippling the outlet. “It’s hurting us big time,” AP photographer Evan Vucci said during a court hearing Thursday, according to CNN. “We’re basically dead in the water on major news stories.”
In February, the Trump administration barred the AP from the White House press pool and Air Force One over its decision to use “Gulf of Mexico” even after President Donald Trump changed the name to “Gulf of America,” which the organization said was necessary to cater to its global audience.
In response, the AP filed suit against White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Deputy Chief of Staff Trevor Budowich, and Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.
“We just absolutely got slammed in the play,” Vucci said, according to CNN. “We got destroyed.”
Vucci was the photographer who took the widely circulated photograph of Trump after last year’s assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania
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