Pentagon reporters were denied access to an 11 AM press briefing on December 2nd, 2025, contradicting the Department of Defense's statement of leading "the most transparent administration in U.S. history." The denial of access occurred within the past 29 minutes of the current reporting window, from 3:45:48 PM to 4:15:38 PM UTC. Punchbowl News reported that Speaker Mike Johnson commented on President Trump's use of the word "retarded" to refer to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, stating, "That’s not the word I would choose." Additionally, Johnson was reportedly on a last-minute campaign trip for a special election in a Tennessee district, a trip he had to fly in for, despite the district being considered a Trump +22 stronghold where a GOP win was expected to be easy. In other political news, an internal poll for Robert White shows Eleanor Holmes Norton trailing in the Democratic primary for D.C. delegate, with White at 29%, Norton at 16%, and Pinto at 14%. This information was shared by Andrew Solender via X, citing a document from documentcloud.org. These developments follow allegations from a previous report concerning a potential coup plot within the Pentagon targeting War Secretary Pete Hegseth, with claims of legacy media outlets publishing favorable stories about Army Secretary Dan Driscoll over the past two weeks.
