Leavitt Won’t Attend Annual White House Press Dinner

The Hill reports:

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said she will skip the annual White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner slated for late April this year. “I will not be in attendance at the White House Correspondents’ dinner and that’s breaking news for the Sean Spicer Show,” Leavitt said during her Friday appearance on the show hosted by Sean Spicer, who served as President Trump’s first press secretary during his first term in office.

Leavitt’s decision also comes after the White House announced it would decide which journalists make up the pool covering the president instead of the WHCA last month, a move condemned by the organization and several press freedom groups. Trump did not attend the WHCA dinners during his first Oval Office term, breaking with a tradition

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