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Getty Washington Post ban is latest battle in Trump's war with the press

The Washington Post was the latest target of Donald Trump’s ire Monday afternoon, but the publication is just one of more than a dozen news organizations the candidate has blocked from doing its job.

In a Facebook post, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee announced that his campaign would no longer issue press credentials to The Post’s reporters because of the publication’s “incredibly inaccurate coverage” of his campaign.

“Based on the incredibly inaccurate coverage and reporting of the record setting Trump campaign, we are hereby revoking the press credentials of the phony and dishonest Washington Post,” he wrote.

In a longer statement, Trump accused the Post of being dishonest and of being manipulated by its owner, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, "so that they don't have to pay taxes and don't get sued."

"The Washington Post unfortunately covers Mr. Trump very inaccurately," the statement read. "Today’s headline, “Donald Trump Suggests President Obama Was Involved With Orlando Shooting” is a perfect example. We no longer feel compelled to work with a publication which has put its needs for “clicks” above journalistic integrity."

The story Trump mentioned was about remarks Trump made in a TV interview Monday morning in which he seemed to suggest that President Obama was hiding something about a mass shooting in Orlando, Florida. The publication has since changed the headline to: "Donald Trump seems to connect President Obama to Orlando shooting."

"They have no journalistic integrity, and write falsely about Mr. Trump," the statement continued. "Mr. Trump does not mind a bad story, but it has to be honest."

But The Post is the latest of more than a dozen publications that Trump has banned from attending his campaign events — although this is one of only a few bans Trump has explicitly announced. The bans over the months have targeted legacy organizations, broadcast news outlets and digital publications alike — and many have been in response to articles or editorials in those publications that reflect poorly upon the presidential candidate.

Earlier this month, POLITICO's Ben Schreckinger was removed from a Trump event in California, having obtained one of the tickets distributed to the public. The author of POLITICO's California Playbook, Carla Marinucci, was also asked to leave, but was allowed to stay on the condition she not speak to anyone at the event.

In July of last year, the Trump campaign denied the Des Moines Register credentials to attend a campaign event, which campaign manager Corey Lewandowski said was in retaliation for an editorial that ran in the publication several days prior. Register reporters remained banned from campaign events through the Iowa caucuses.

Likewise, The New Hampshire Union Leader found itself blocked from campaign events apparently in response to critical editorials about the candidate. The Union-Leader was also removed as a co-sponsor of the New Hampshire GOP primary debate that aired on ABC.

The Huffington Post’s senior political reporter, Scott Conroy, and reporter Samantha-Jo Roth said that Trump’s campaign denied them credentials last summer, around the same time that the Huffington Post relegated Trump coverage to its entertainment vertical. (Several months ago a source at Huffington Post told POLITICO that reporters “haven’t asked for credentials for a while,” it seeming pointless to bother.)

Buzzfeed has also been blocked from covering Trump’s events. Evan McMorris-Santoro was denied entry to a campaign event in November and was blocked from attending the event when he tried to enter through the general admission line. And The Daily Beast’s Olivia Nuzzi has also been denied entrance to Trump events since November of last year.

Gawker has also been banned from attending Trump events, according to the site.

In January of this year, press credentials for several foreign outlets, like France’s Canal Plus, were unexpectedly yanked. And at a Trump campaign rally in March, Foreign Policy senior reporter Molly O’Toole said she was denied entry to an event despite being credentialed. Mother Jones’s Patrick Caldwell has also said he has been “regularly been turned away from Trump events,” as have other Mother Jones staffers.

In March, Schreckinger and ThinkProgress reporter Alice Ollstein were both denied entry to a Trump press conference. Schreckinger said he had received credentials earlier in the day but had them revoked minutes later — the same day he co-bylined a story critical of Trump’s campaign manager, Corey Lewandowksi.

The same month, the executive editor of The New Tri-State Defender, a Memphis-based African-American newspaper, said the publication was denied credentials to a campaign event.

Other journalists have been credentialed but later pulled from Trump events the same day.

In August 2015, Univision anchor Jorge Ramos was booted from a Trump press conference for asking a question about Trump’s immigration policy, the beginning of a tense relationship between Univision and the Trump campaign. Since then, Trump’s campaign has regularly blocked Univision, Telemundo and Fusion reporters from attending Trump campaign events, saying that ongoing litigation with Univision over a lawsuit related to the Miss Universe organization constituted a conflict of interest. Although the lawsuit has been settled, Univision remains blocked from Trump campaign events.

In January, New York Times reporter Trip Gabriel — who wrote an article critical of Trump’s ground operation in Iowa — was removed from a Trump event. He was told that the event, which was being attended by dozens of journalists, was “private” and that he was not allowed to attend. A few months prior, CNN reporter Noah Gray had been threatened to be kicked out of an event after he stepped out of the designated press area at a Trump event. In March, Sun Sentinel columnist Michael Mayo said he was threatened with jail time if he did not leave a Trump rally in Palm Beach County, Florida. CBS News reporter Sopan Deb got arrested at a Trump event for filming protests outside of a Trump rally.

“Donald Trump’s decision to revoke The Washington Post’s press credentials is nothing less than a repudiation of the role of a free and independent press," Washington Post editor Marty Baron wrote in a statement. "When coverage doesn’t correspond to what the candidate wants it to be, then a news organization is banished. The Post will continue to cover Donald Trump as it has all along – honorably, honestly, accurately, energetically, and unflinchingly. We’re proud of our coverage, and we’re going to keep at it.”

In a statement responding to Trump's decision to ban the Post, POLITICO editor Susan Glasser said this:

“Trump in his campaign has repeatedly tried to control the coverage of news organizations by denying their journalists access to his campaign events. We believe that is a violation of the basic right of a free press to report — and if the goal is to squelch independent journalism about Trump it certainly won’t work."