The goal was to bypass the traditional news media who monopolized the White House
Correspondents Association press room at the White House and set the “conventional wisdom” such as the false Russia collusion narrative. In its place, the aides wanted to stand up a new press room in the Old Executive Office Building where new media free from the group think of the legacy press could get briefings, access to the president and flourish. If there was a sticking point that summer of discontent, it was how the public might react to such a notion.
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