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The ABC has been barred from attending Donald Trump\u2019s press conference near London this week after a clash between the broadcaster\u2019s Americas editor, John Lyons, and the president in Washington DC over his business dealings.<\/p>\n
The Australian broadcaster said its London bureau was informed by Downing Street that its accreditation to attend the press conference had been withdrawn for \u201clogistical reasons\u201d.<\/p>\n
Trump was due to have lunch with the British prime minister, Keir Starmer, at the latter\u2019s country retreat of Chequers on Thursday before the joint press conference.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe ABC\u2019s London bureau is still accredited to attend Chequers, however, Downing Street media has said it no longer has a spot at the joint press conference due to logistical reasons,\u201d an ABC spokesperson told the Guardian.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe have been given no indication this is connected to the questions put to President Trump by ABC Americas editor John Lyons earlier this week.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lyons, who is reporting for Four Corners, drew the ire of the president on Tuesday when he asked Trump how much wealthier he had become since returning to the Oval Office for his second term in January.<\/p>\n
Trump accused the reporter of \u201churting Australia\u201d with the line of questioning.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn my opinion, you are hurting Australia very much right now,\u201d Trump said. \u201cAnd they want to get along with me.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know, your leader is coming over to see me very soon. I\u2019m going to tell him about you. You set a very bad tone. You can set a nicer tone.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump subsequently told Lyons: \u201cQuiet.\u201d<\/p>\n
<\/span>‘Hurting Australia’: Trump threatens Australian ABC journalist John Lyons \u2013 video<\/span><\/p>\n Guardian Australia understands the ABC still has access to the White House.<\/p>\n The Trump administration used an official X account to label Lyons a \u201cforeign fake news loser\u201d alongside a Fox News clip from the Washington press conference.<\/p>\n skip past newsletter promotion<\/p>\n Sign up to Breaking News Australia<\/span><\/p>\n Get the most important news as it breaks<\/p>\n Privacy Notice: <\/strong>Newsletters may contain information about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. If you do not have an account, we will create a guest account for you on theguardian.com to send you this newsletter. You can complete full registration at any time. For more information about how we use your data see our Privacy Policy. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.<\/span><\/p>\n after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n <\/span>The ABC\u2019s Americas editor John Lyons.<\/span> Photograph: ABC<\/p>\n Lyons has argued he was not asking \u201cparticularly hostile questions\u201d when he queried whether it was appropriate for a US president to engage in so many business deals while in office.<\/p>\n He asked: \u201cIs it appropriate, President Trump, that a president in office should be engaged in so much business activity?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWell, I\u2019m really not,\u201d Trump replied. \u201cMy kids are running the business. You know what the activity \u2013 where are you from?\u201d<\/p>\n Australia\u2019s politicians threw their support behind the Washington-based Lyons after Trump said he would tell the Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, about the exchange.<\/p>\n The Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young said Trump was trying to bully the media and Australia and demanded Albanese stand up to criticism of Australian journalists.<\/p>\n The ABC news director, Justin Stevens, said Lyons had the broadcaster\u2019s full support.<\/p>\n \u201cJohn Lyons is a highly awarded journalist and one of the most experienced and respected reporters in Australia,\u201d Stevens said. \u201cHis job is to ask questions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The ABC has been barred from attending Donald Trump\u2019s press conference near London this week after a clash between the broadcaster\u2019s Americas editor, John Lyons, and the president in Washington DC over his business dealings. The Australian broadcaster said its London bureau was informed by Downing Street that its accreditation to attend the press conference<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[2055,2059,490,2060,1535,6582,2061,262,8288,13549,4316,71],"class_list":{"0":"post-22086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-abc","9":"tag-australian","10":"tag-barred","11":"tag-broadcasting","12":"tag-clash","13":"tag-conference","14":"tag-corporation","15":"tag-john","16":"tag-journalist","17":"tag-lyons","18":"tag-press","19":"tag-trumps"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}