Banned by Trump

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For the first time, the White House decided to ban some major news outlets from a White House Briefing. Banned were the NY Times, Los Angeles Times, CNN, and Politico. White House refused to admit they were banned for not printing the company line. Sound like the early days of Putin?

From CNN's Jake Trapper:

A White House that has had some difficulty telling the truth and that has seemed to have trouble getting up to speed on the basic competent functioning of government, and a president who seems particularly averse to any criticism and has called the press the enemies of the American people - they're taking the next step in attempting to avoid checks and balances and accountability. It's not acceptable. In fact, it's petulant, and indicative of a lack of basic understanding of how an adult White House functions.

When asked about the reason for a ban, White House's Spicer say he rejected the premise of the question - as if those news services were not banned.

Apparently this has something to do with stories from these news media that Trump tried to get the FBI to quash the fact that top Trump campaign people were in regular conversation with Russian intelligent agents.

Who does Trump's plumbing?