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Where’s the piety about freedom of the press now that Beto O’Rourke has kicked out a reporter?

After Democrats made a huge stink about President Trump for kicking out news reporters from press conferences, a weird silence descends as Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke not only kicked out a senior Breitbart editor, Joel Pollak, from one of his events, but threatened him with arrest.

According to Breitbart News:

O’Rourke, who has lauded himself as a champion of a free press, had Breitbart News’s Senior Editor-at-Large Joel Pollak removed from his event at Benedict College Tuesday, with a member of his campaign claiming that Pollak had been “disruptive” at past events — an assertion that is patently false.

Here is the backstory:

This reporter has covered two O’Rourke events. The first was at a protest outside a shelter for migrant teens in Homestead […]

Read the full story from The American Thinker


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