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Senate To Limit Press Coverage Of Impeachment Trial That Almost No One Was Going To Watch Anyway

Ashe Schow
Senate To Limit Press Coverage Of Impeachment Trial That Almost No One Was Going To Watch Anyway
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The only people that were really going to watch President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial in the Senate were reporters and die-hard Trump haters privileged enough to not have to work.

So, naturally, journalists “are up in arms,” as The New York Times reported, about not getting free rein inside the Capitol building during the impeachment trial, which they themselves baited House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) into starting. As the Times noted, however, Republican Senate leadership hasn’t even written down the rules for coverage yet, but reporters don’t need much to get them outraged at Republicans.

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