The former White House correspondent in New York Mark Landler said that there are “much larger” challenges covering the second Trump administration compared to the first.
Speaking at the London Information Freedom Freedom Association conference on Tuesday, Landler, who is now the head of the London office office in the newspaper, has argued that everything from securing the sources to the danger of Lorvar has become a greater issue during Donald Trump’s second term.
Landler, a journalist in the New York Times, spent eight years as a correspondent at the White House during this period in which he covered the former presidency of Barrak Obama and Trump.
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“It is very difficult with Trump to know the really lasting policy statements and go to.”
Landler told reporters who gathered on Tuesday: “In this political environment very preserved in the United States, I feel I need a healthy warning to myself whenever I speak publicly – which their correspondents in New York must see their words very carefully,” Landler told reporters who gathered on Tuesday.
“I am a reporter, I am not an executive official of the news, I am not a commentator, I am not a column writer. So I will try to be a descriptive journalist without slipping into editorial rulings.”
Landler argued that the “first challenge” of reporters is Trump’s approach to politics, which he said is not necessarily “in particular consistent or strategy.”
“Instead of offering new policies through a presidential speech, followed by surroundings with the journalists conducted by the President’s advisers – which was presented in the United States decades ago – Trump tends to issue the most important policy advertisements on social media.”
These ads are often released “very late at night, very early in the morning or Saturday and Sunday.
“So, regardless of the devastating influence that was on the personal life of the White House, it often leaves you in a place where you don’t want to be exactly when you suddenly wrestle with a historical change of China’s policy or some very big reports to a foreign leader.”
In addition, Landler said: “The lack of details and explicit assurances, but most of all, the repercussions that the head lasts are very difficult. Because it is very difficult with Trump to know any policy statements real and go, which are just experimental balloons and which are thinking about my voice loudly.”
He referred to “Putin’s initiatives on Putin on Ukraine as” something “that looks real”, but he contradicted it with it A suggestion that the United States will take over the Gaza StripAnd that Landler said, “He does not feel realistic away,” but nevertheless means that NYT “has devoted an acre from the newspapers to analyze what this means.”
Trump’s repeated allegations that he wanted Greenland, similarly, “cost our paper thousands of dollars, and we have devoted a lot of time and time to something that might happen or never happens.”
Mark Landler says that the least prepared sources to interact with journalists within the framework of the second Trump administration.
Landler suggested that during the first Trump administration, the president was not “really expected to win”, and thus “a group of traditional personalities some somewhat” for his government employees.
Landler said that these people “looked at their role really act as a kind of handrail, which prevents the president and administration from breaking the law, getting out of its path, and bypassing America’s relationship with its allies, etc.”
However, in the second administration, Landler argued that Trump has instead hired “real loyalists and believers”, which means that “the handrails of the Trump’s first administration no longer exist.”
“This also means that for journalists, covering the White House is much more difficult, because there are fewer administration officials ready to speak in the registry to White House correspondents, and less than those who want to refer to any dispute with the president or refer to any legal problems or issues.”
Landler said that Trump’s second administration has also brought a “more aggressive situation towards the media”, which was embodied by excluding the Associated Press from the Oval Office and the government that defines direct control of the spin of the press group.
But he said that there are “much greater challenges looming on the horizon”, for example “whether the administration will use the FBI under the manager [Kash] Patel and the Ministry of Justice during the reign of the leader of the Ministry of Justice, Pam Bondi, to pursue correspondents and news organizations that they do not like.
“This may take the form of defamation allowances against individuals or newspapers, and this may also lead to more evil areas such as monitoring, calling phone records, or putting the correspondents on the situation and forcing them to reveal secret sources when going to prison if they refuse.”
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Landler also talked about revelation a day before that It seems that the editor -in -chief of the Atlantic Ocean, Jeffrey Goldberg To a group chat in which administration officials have exchanged information about an upcoming attack against the Houthis in Yemen.
He said: “Through any criterion, this is a violation of the dismantling of security protocols.”
“In any other administration – I would like to put Trump 1.0 in this category – this would have raised a storm of questions and perhaps led [national security advisor] Michael Walz …
“It is clear, when we look at this episode, we left the handrails behind us, and we are in a completely new era of the press and the White House.”
He added that the messages have offered “a great look at the contempt [vice president JD] Vans, [defence secretary Pete] HegSeth and others carry Europe and our European allies, because one of the things that clarified in the messages was this discussion about their frustration that the Houthis bombing would save the Europeans, and how the last thing they wanted to do was help free Europeans.
“So for those in Britain who still believe this is a repairing matter, I would like to refer to them to some of these messages.”
He was asked what he would have done if he had been added in the group chat, Landler said: “I don’t think I would have been in it and lup. [for longer]And that I know that some people criticized Jeff – that he should have stayed because he might have been in the group during the next six months and discovered 50 obscene.
“But I believe that Jeff has realized that the breach of security here was so deep that he owed it to the country really to get rid of the chat group and alert the government to what happened.
“And I think Jeff was likely felt that he did not want the next process to be penetrated and that the American forces were killed or if something happened because he was hoping to have an exciting story. I am sure that this is the place where he fell, and perhaps I had fallen in a similar place.”
In response to a question about whether the New York TT newspaper had changed its approach to liberation and Trump between the two vicers, Landler said there was no “decree.”
“In the first period, we struggled if we needed to set new criteria to deal with things that were simply clear.
“We have never said that the president had lied before – and by the way, I think this is true for Richard Nixon. It was not just a word we used in reference to the president.
“But we started doing this – not regularly, but unforgiving – around Trump. And when we did that, many people said,” You are editing “, because we used to go further than we went before …
He said: “I think Trump’s presidency 1.0 made us rethink some of our criteria,” but since then they “have” had a lot of time to think through the place … I think, at the present time, we feel comfortable about what we are in. “
Landler said Trump was “the same person at the age of 78, he was 46 years old,” when the journalist met him for the first time.
“Bragadocio, sale, historical review, self-promotion, and comfortable relationship-none of this changed at all throughout the decades in which Donald Trump was in the eyes of the audience. He always says the calm part loudly, and he generally does what he always says.
“That’s why I am always confused when people say that Trump has surprised them in the second chapter – that he is more extreme and extreme than they expected.
“I would like to claim that with very few exceptions, he does everything he said that he would do in his presidential campaign, and if people have listened carefully, they will not really surprise much of anything.”
Landler said that Trump was open that he intends to collect illegal immigrants collectively, that he would impose a tariff on neighbors and allies and that he would shoot thousands of civilian employees.
“He did not tell us that he was thinking about paving the pink White House garden to put it in a courtyard as it was in Mar Lago, that is true.”
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