Kremlin-Paid Podcaster Joins White House Press Pool

The Daily Beast reports:

A right-wing influencer who was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to spread Russian propaganda during the 2024 presidential election has been added to the White House press pool. On Friday, someone from Tim Pool’s “Timcast” YouTube channel will be part of the press pool covering President Donald Trump, said Will Sommer, a journalist with The Bulwark, in a social media post on X.

The decision comes after the White House stripped the Washington, D.C. press corps of its authority to decide who among its correspondents will be part of the daily rotation of reporters assigned to follow the president. That opened the door for the White House to bring in sympathetic podcasters and influencers, even as it has banned the Associated Press from participating in

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