Kamala Harris
Role at the time: Former Vice President of the United States, on the podcast "Baby, This is Keke Palmer"
Condemned
Statement summary
On Keke Palmer's podcast, former Vice President Kamala Harris said Trump's decision to bar the three outlets ran against the transparency expected of a president, and asked why he did not leave the White House if he wanted to act in secret.
“You're in the wrong place. If you want to do things in secret, then why don't you just leave the White House?”
Open source (opens in a new tab)Kamala Harris urges Donald Trump to "leave the White House" if he wants to "do things in secret" amid backlash over press banHarris's quoted remarks
Why we used this label
The case asks whether President Trump should bar CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House over their coverage. Harris says a president who wants to act in secret is in the wrong place. That opposes the ban, so we labeled it Condemned. The closest competing label is Mixed or conditional; it loses because she accepts no part of the ban.