{"id":78962,"date":"2026-09-21T07:55:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T12:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/21\/trump-denies-assault-on-free-press-as-three-outlets-plan-to-sue-over-white-house-ban-live\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T07:55:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T12:55:14","slug":"trump-denies-assault-on-free-press-as-three-outlets-plan-to-sue-over-white-house-ban-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/21\/trump-denies-assault-on-free-press-as-three-outlets-plan-to-sue-over-white-house-ban-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump denies \u2018assault\u2019 on free press as three outlets plan to sue over White House ban \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three news outlets to sue to protect First Amendment rights; Trump claims to \u2018cherish\u2019 free press but also attacks \u2018fake news\u2019 media <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for US Breaking News emails<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hours after the three news outlets he summarily barred from the White House announced their intentions to file a lawsuit, Trump took to social media to defend himself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe White House is not instituting an assault on the Free Press, something which I cherish,\u201d Trump wrote on Truth Social, in response to the pending challenge from CNN, MS NOW, and Politico, the three outlets he banned.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/sep\/21\/donald-trump-arch-media-white-house-press-ban-mamdani-ai-unga-latest-news-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three news outlets to sue to protect First Amendment rights; Trump claims to \u2018cherish\u2019 free press but also attacks \u2018fake news\u2019 media Sign up for US Breaking News emails Hours after the three news outlets he summarily barred from the White House announced their intentions to file a lawsuit, Trump took to social media to &#8230; <a title=\"Trump denies \u2018assault\u2019 on free press as three outlets plan to sue over White House ban \u2013 live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/21\/trump-denies-assault-on-free-press-as-three-outlets-plan-to-sue-over-white-house-ban-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump denies \u2018assault\u2019 on free press as three outlets plan to sue over White House ban \u2013 live\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}