Ari Fleischer

The case's fixed reference point is President Trump's announcement, by Truth Social post and again in the Oval Office on September 18, 2026, that CNN, MS NOW and Politico are banned from the White House because of their coverage, that is, excluding named news organizations from White House access over what they report. Fleischer writes "Banning them from the WH is not the solution," an express rejection of the exclusion, and the rest of his post proposes opening the pool and briefing room to conservatives as the alternative. The closest competing label is mixed_or_conditional, because the same post says he agrees with Trump that several outlets covering the White House are biased and unfair. That loses because the agreement concerns the outlets' coverage, which is outside the reference point, and his rejection of the exclusion carries no condition.