The following article by Tommy Christopher was posted on the ShareBlue.com website July 29, 2018:
Pence claimed he and Trump ‘stand for’ freedom of the press — then immediately contradicted himself.
Mike Pence added insult to injury when he claimed that he and Trump’s administration are big believers in freedom of the press — and then immediately defended Trump’s decision to ban a CNN reporter from covering an event.
On this week’s edition of Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures,” even host and pro-Trump zealot Maria Bartiromo seemed disgusted with Pence over the administration’s decision to bar CNN’s Kaitlan Collins from a White House event last week just because she asked questions at the end of another event.
“Was it necessary to throw out Kaitlin Collins from CNN the other day?” Bartiromo asked Pence in an interview. “What happened?”