Trump pulls Washington Post’s press credentials

Donald Trump on Monday said his presidential campaign is revoking credentials provided to The Washington Post.

Trump wrote on his Facebook page that, “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 that he’s “no fan of” President Barack Obama, but faults the Post for a headline posted Monday that he says read, “Donald Trump suggests President Obama was involved with Orlando shooting.”

The headline on the story Monday afternoon read, “Donald Trump seems to connect President Obama to Orlando shooting.”

Trump said in an interview on Fox News Channel Monday morning that when it comes to fighting terrorism, the president “doesn’t get it or, or he gets it better than anybody understands.”

A Post photographer and reporter attended Trump’s speech in New Hampshire Monday afternoon without issue.

In a statement, Post editor Martin Baron says, “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. 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.”

Last year, Trump denied the Huffington Post and Des Moines Register credentials. The latter was stripped after the paper’s editorial called the candidate a “feckless blowhard” who was “unfit to hold office.”