It’s unusual for a candidate to ban a reporter, but Trump has done so repeatedly since he announced he was seeking the Republican nomination in June. Among the news organizations that have been penalized by him are Buzzfeed, Politico, Fusion, Univision, the Manchester (N.H.) Union Leader, the Des Moines Register, the Daily Beast and Huffington Post.

The bans, which have been erratically enforced and of seemingly arbitrary duration, typically mean a reporter from the affected news organization is barred from covering campaign events. Some banned reporters have entered his rallies on general-admission tickets. One of them--Ben Schreckinger of Politico--was escorted out of an event last week by campaign officials after he tried to report on while in the crowd....

Buzzfeed’s reporters have been consistently denied credential and turned away by Trump since the start of the campaign, said Ben Smith, the news site’s editor. Smith said he believes the ban stems from an unflattering profile of Trump that Buzzfeed published in 2014. But the ban hasn’t deterred Buzzfeed’s reporting, he said. “They say access is a curse, and I’d put our coverage up against anyone’s,” Smith said.

In addition to its daily news coverage of Trump, The Post has a team of reporters and editors engaged in writing a book about Trump’s life and business career that will be published this summer.

(It should be said that I was denied credentials to get into the speech on Monday, so I watched a livestream of it from the laundry room of a largely deserted dormitory nearby. Somebody was drying some socks, and the sound of the dryer drying socks did not make the speech sound any more coherent.)

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