‘Yes dummy’: JD Vance slams US journalist for comparing White House ban to attack on free speech

US vice chairman JD Vance on Monday slammed journalist Mehdi Hasan for declaring his hypocrisy after he claimed that European international locations are suppressing free speech, whereas the White House concurrently banned information company Associated Press for its continued use of the Gulf of Mexico.
The disagreement erupted after Hasan tagged Vance and linked to an Axios article which mentioned that the Trump administration’s choice to indefinitely block AP from the White House over utilization fashion was an attack on free press.
“Hey JD Vance I know you’re busy lecturing the Europeans on free speech, but have you seen this?” Hasan mentioned.

The social media submit referred to Vance’s latest speech at Munich Security Conference on Friday the place he known as out European governments for suppressing free speech. He accused European Union “commissars” of suppressing free speech and blamed the continent for mass migration and accused its leaders of retreating from “some of its most fundamental values.”
Vance responded to Hasan’s remark and mentioned that there’s a distinction between not giving a reporter a seat within the WH press briefing room and jailing individuals for dissenting views.
“Yes dummy. I think there’s a difference between not giving a reporter a seat in the WH press briefing room and jailing people for dissenting views. The latter is a threat to free speech, the former is not. Hope that helps!” Vance mentioned.

This comes days after White House blocked an Associated Press journalist from masking a information convention with two main world leaders upping the stakes in a disagreement between the information company and the Trump administration over AP’s fashion choice to follow the identify “Gulf of Mexico” for the physique of water that the president rechristened the “Gulf of America.”