CNN, MS NOW and Politico have filed their lawsuit against the Trump administration. They say President Trump’s decision to bar them from the White House grounds violates their First Amendment right to cover the president, and I agree. They are asking the court to reverse the ban and restore their White House press passes, and they have requested an expedited hearing so a judge rules on this quickly rather than letting it sit on a docket for months while their reporters stay locked outside the gate. That is the whole ask. You can read the complete lawsuit here.
Why This Reaches Your Kitchen Table
Think about what a press pass does. It puts a reporter inside the building where decisions about your taxes, your healthcare, your kids’ schools, and your safety get made, and that reporter’s whole job is to walk back out and tell you what happened. You are not in that room. Neither is your neighbor. The reporter in the room is how you find out. A press pass is your seat in the room, held by someone whose only job is to tell you what happened. The First Amendment protects that arrangement because the founders understood that a government nobody watches is a government that answers to nobody. Take the reporter out and the door closes on you too.
Now picture a president who hands out those seats based on how much he likes the coverage. Reporters learn fast what happens to the ones who ask hard questions, the ones who keep their passes start softening their questions to stay in the room, and within a few news cycles you are getting a version of events shaped by who was allowed through the door. That is how it works.
The lawsuit carries the names of a few newsrooms. The person with the most at stake is you. When a president decides who gets to watch him, he decides what you get to know.
Friday Night, Saturday Morning
Late Friday night I dropped a video on this story and on Saturday morning I went back to that same page and added an update along with my legal analysis. If you want the full picture of what this ban means and how the case gets argued, everything sits at this one link. Watch it. Share it.
None Of This Is Normal
Presidents have always hated some of their coverage. None of them got to lock reporters out of the building for it, because the moment that becomes acceptable, every future president of every party gets the same tool and uses it against whoever is telling the story they do not want told.
Nothing about a president banning reporters is normal, and the courts exist for moments exactly like this one. Read the lawsuit and watch my video. Then tell someone at your dinner table why a reporter’s press pass belongs to you, and share this so the people around you understand what is on the line.
This isn’t OK, and it’s not normal.
Mitch Jackson, Esq.
The Report Is Out
Over the weekend I dropped a new 16-page special report. It runs about 5,000 words, and across those pages I share why I believe Donald Trump will resign the presidency in 2027, laying out all of my reasoning and the steps I see leading there so you get the full case from the first page to the last. Every step is in there. I am making it available to all paid subscribers.
Built Like A Closing Argument
I build arguments for a living. In a courtroom you do not get to tell a jury you have a feeling about something; you have to show them each piece of evidence and walk them from one point to the next until the conclusion feels like something they reached on their own. That is how I wrote this report. Every step gets its own explanation. Every conclusion sits on top of the one before it. You are free to stop at any point and tell me where you think the chain breaks. That is the whole reason for putting it in writing. Put your reasoning on paper and let the reader test every step of it.
I put my name on this one. A prediction you write down and sign your name to is a promise to be judged by it. If 2027 comes and goes with Trump still sitting in the Oval Office, you will know exactly where I went wrong, because I showed you every step along the way and hid nothing behind vague language.
Why It Sits Behind The Paywall
This one is for paid subscribers. Their support is what pays for the hours of reading and drafting that a report like this takes, and it is the reason I get to write the long version of a story when the long version is the only honest one. It is for them.
Read It Before 2027 Gets Here
Nobody prepares for what they refuse to see coming.
The report is waiting for paid subscribers right now, so upgrade if you have not already, read all 16 pages, come back, and tell me in the comments where you agree and where you think I have it wrong, because the entire point of writing it was to get you thinking about 2027 well before 2027 arrives. Nobody prepares for what they refuse to see coming. Read it, all of it, before you decide what you think.
Even if trump does resign, that isn't good enough. Let there be accountability, reparations, and a rollback of their illegal agenda, #project2025 (in favor of the People).
I find it incredibly treasonous, repulsive and destabilizing to the United States that TASS - a Russian state propaganda/disinformation network since I was a kid - continues to be part of the Whte House press corps - while CNN, MSN, Politico, CBS, ABC and Fox no longer are.
How did "we" ever elect such an incontinent, unintelligent Manchurian Nazi as President???