'Retaliation': Trump camp 'punishing reporters' by denying credentials to Mar-a-Lago election event

Donald Trump's team denied credentials from a group of journalists ahead of the 2024 GOP nominee's West Palm Beach, Florida election watch event Tuesday night "in retaliation for their coverage of Trump’s campaign," CNN reports.

One of the news organizations denied access to the event is Politico.

The Washington Post's Meryl Kornfield shared a screenshot from Intelligencer's Tuesday report, which reads:

Politico had three reporters and a photographer credentialed for the campaign’s watch party in Palm Beach, Florida. But on Tuesday, according to a source, Politico learned they’d been barred from the event over a story that Politico Magazine had published a day earlier, by a freelancer, about a white nationalist who had worked on the Trump campaign in Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania GOP fired the staffer after learning about the views he had expressed under an online alias.

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Far-right extremist researcher and writer Amanda Moore reported in the Politico article published Monday, November 4, that the Trump campaign fired Pennsylvania field director Luke Meyer after she revealed his "white nationalist views" in her reporting last week.

In addition to Politico, reporters from "Axios, Puck, Voice of America and Mother Jones were among those denied credentials," CNN reports.

While Intelligencer reports the Trump campaign is "punishing reporters over critical stories either they or their outlets have written in recent days," CNN notes, "A person familiar with the campaign’s decisions acknowledged that the reporters had been denied access because of their coverage, but pushed back on the notion it was because of 'critical' coverage, claiming the reporting was 'inaccurate.'"

Puck reporter Tara Palmeri was set to report live from the MAGA campaign’s Sunshine State headquarters Tuesday night "for an Amazon special," according to Intelligencer's report, but Trump campaign co-manager Chris LaCivita wrote via X last week that "she was 'DENIED credentials to enter Mar-a-lago to cover election night due to her 'proclivity' to write bulls—t. [W]ell well well."

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Journalist Oliver Darcy reported Monday, "Palmeri was previously denied access to Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally but had 'received assurances from the Trump campaign' that she would 'be permitted to broadcast from the campaign’s Election Night party.'

CNN's report is available at this link. Intelligencer's report is here.