Aussie Reporter Shut Out of Trump Presser Days After President Scolded Network Editor

David Gilmour Sep 18th, 2025, 10:00 am

Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) journalists were denied access to President Donald Trump’s joint press conference with Prime Minister Keir Starmer just days after the president berated the network’s editor, John Lyons, over questions about his business interests.

ABC said Downing Street informed its London bureau that accreditation had been withdrawn for “logistical reasons,” adding: “We have been given no indication this is connected to the questions put to President Trump by ABC Americas editor John Lyons earlier this week.”

UK officials, eager to defuse suggestions of political pressure, insisted any link to Lyons’ exchange with Trump was

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