DC insider says Pentagon 'obviously covering stuff up'

The Pentagon is still tamping down press access even as President Donald Trump engages a chaotic war on Iran, and one Republican speechwriter believes he knows why.

“They're covering this stuff up,” said Bulwark podcaster and GOP strategist Tim Miller. “They've kicked [Politico Pentagon reporter] Paul [McLeary] and others out of the Pentagon. We live in a free country. It's ridiculous that reporters are being escorted in and out of the pentagon during wartime. Reporters should have access to other members of the military, not just the secretary spokesperson, who's a former TV host who wants to spin them.”

“The American people deserve to know what's actually happening in this war, and they're also obviously covering stuff up,” Miller told MS NOW anchor Nicole Wallace, and then cited how pertinent wartime information was getting fed to MAGA podcasters faster than legitimate media outlets with a history of complete and fair reporting.

McLeary confirmed to Wallace that he and other legit outlets are “not allowed in the building anymore, except for staged briefings.”

“We're escorted in and then escorted out right after, and Hegseth has generally been calling on his new favorite outlets — the new pentagon press corps, I guess you could call it — of conservative and right wing outlets that they've brought in and credentialed.”

Miller said the MAGA outlets who serve as the Pentagon’s new information disseminators are hardly reliable.

“They lied,” Miller said. “The president has lied several times about our complicity in the Tomahawk attack on the [Iranian] girls’ school, just lied to people's face. That's what we're seeing. We're seeing people that care more about their image, and they're lying to the American people.”

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