Here’s how the Trump campaign decides whether to ban a media organization

Last week the presidential campaign of Donald Trump made a spectacle of its decision to cancel The Post’s credentials. “Based on the incredibly inaccurate coverage and reporting of the record setting Trump campaign, we are hereby revoking the press credentials of the phony and dishonest Washington Post,” Trump wrote in a Facebook posting. It’s a move that the campaign has taken against a number of publications including the Daily Beast, the Huffington Post and the Des Moines Register.

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And now we know a bit more about the careful deliberations that go into such bans. Olivia Nuzzi, a politics reporter for the Daily Beast, has written a profile of 27-year-old Trump campaign press secretary Hope Hicks.

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