Trump's D.C. Hotel Permanently Bans Forbes Reporter After ... Wait For It ... Taking Photos
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Zach Everson has long tracked the lobbyists, Republicans and foreign government reps who have spent big at the hotel to wrangle favors from the former pr...
Forbes journalist Zach Everson has been permanently banned from the Trump International Hotel, ostensibly for taking photographs, he reported Friday. After a quick visit to the bar of the Washington hangout, a drink, a few photos and a text on Thursday night, Everson said he was ordered to leave by Ernest Wojciech, the hotel’s director of security. Wojciech told the journalist he was getting the boot for “taking photos without permission,” Everson reported in Forbes. The reporter was then told the ban was for life. Photos of the bar, lobby and restaurant of the renovated Old Post Office Building — owned by taxpayers and leased by the Trump Organization — have been the focus of countless Twitter, Instagram and Facebook posts showing who’s dropping a dime in hopes of currying favor with former President Donald Trump.
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