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.@Playboy correspondent @BrianKarem has submitted this statement responding to the White House’s “preliminary decision” to suspend his hard pass White House press credentials. gibsondunn.com/wp-content/upl…. 1/2
gibsondunn.com/wp-content/upl… As @BrianKarem explains, “It’s essential that I hold on to my hard pass so that I can continue to carry out my responsibility” “to ask tough questions of President Trump and his administration. After all, that’s what the First Amendment is all about.” 2/2
"I understand that Ms. Grisham says she has taken this action against my hard pass because I insulted White House guests and escalated the situation," Karem wrote. "The escalation ran the other direction, as did the insults.The crowd was heckling the journalists & singled me out”
“because of my parting question to President Trump. Then Gorka singled me out, and interpreted my friendly attempt to defuse the situation as a threat. At no point in time was I ever of the mindset I was going to fight anyone."
‘Karem wrote that as a journalist it is his "responsibility to ask tough questions." He added, "It’s essential that I hold on to my hard pass so that I can continue to carry out my responsibility. After all, that’s what the First Amendment is all about."’
