Trump White House snubs CNN again as legal showdown looms: 'At it again’

Donald Trump’s White House escalated its confrontation with CNN on Wednesday, once again excluding the network from traveling with the president despite a looming deadline to respond to a threat of further legal action.CNN chief media analyst Brian Stelter reported that the network had been left off the press pool list for Trump’s trip to South Carolina, even though it was the network’s scheduled turn to provide television coverage.“The White House is at it again,” Stelter wrote on X, noting that the latest snub came just two days after CNN attorney Ted Boutrous warned the Justice Department that legal action would follow if the network continued to be excluded from Air Force One.“Today is CNN’s turn to fulfill both in-town and out-of-town TV pool duties, but the White House press office left the network off the list for Trump’s trip to South Carolina,” Stelter said. “So as a result there...