President Joe Biden claimed at the White House Correspondents' Dinner just over a week ago, "The free press is a pillar ⁠— maybe the pillar ⁠— of a free society."

It appears that Biden prefers the presence of only those pillars that support him and his agenda.

On Monday, the White House blocked the newspaper established by Founding Father Alexander Hamilton from attending Biden's only daytime public event, where he appeared with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to discuss airline policies in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.

Although Biden previously contended that "journalism is not a crime," the New York Post interpreted its exile as a penalty for illuminating possible improprieties committed by the Democratic president and his kin.

Whereas in previous efforts to exclude the New York Post, the paper — among the top most-read newspapers online — was told it had been kept out due to "space limitations," the exclusion letter this week made no such claim.

Just the News noted that there were in fact numerous empty seats in the gallery.

According to the verboten Post, the Biden White House may be attempting to keep the paper at a distance as Hunter Biden's criminal investigation is "nearing its end." It was the Post, after all, that first broke the Hunter Biden laptop story, detailing the improprieties detailed thereon.

TheBlaze recently detailed how the New York Post proved to be such a thorn in the side of the Biden campaign and the Democratic establishment that the bureaucratic state was ultimately weaponized against it.

The Post's D.C. reporter Steven Nelson took to Twitter to point out the apparent hypocrisy of the liberal media and the Democratic establishment, highlighting how when former President Donald Trump barred the New York Times and CNN from a single press briefing in 2017, the "entire press establishment melts down."

Nelson linked to a Washington Post article that characterized Trump's move in 2017 as the latest move in an "escalating war against the media," detailing how some of the liberal media personalities now silent then succumbed to fits of apoplexy.

\u201cJournalists from The New York Times, CNN and Politico were barred from attending a White House briefing https://t.co/XBVmXIIxUG\u201d

— The New York Times (@The New York Times) 1487966167

The Times has not yet posted a similar statement concerning the Post's exclusion over the weekend.

Martin Baron, then-editor at the Washington Post, said, "This is an undemocratic path that the administration is traveling. ... There is nothing to be gained from the White House restricting the public’s access to information. We are currently evaluating what our response will be if this sort of thing happens again."

ABC News producer and former National Press Club president Jeff Ballou said the exclusion of the liberal outlets by the Trump White House was "deeply disturbing and completely unacceptable that the White House is actively running a campaign against a constitutionally enshrined free and independent press. … The action harks back to the darkest chapters of U.S. history and reeks of undemocratic, un-American, and unconstitutional censorship."

It remains to be seen if former champions of a "free and independent press" on the left will soon speak up against the Post's exclusion or against the Biden White House's apparent efforts to ensure that the purportedly free press asks questions desirable to the state.

Biden was photographed on April 26 holding a "cheat sheet" showing pre-approved questions that reporters ultimately asked at a joint press conference with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol.

TheBlaze reported that Biden held several notecards in his hand. One showed "press conference prep," while another provided Biden with the names, pictures, and affiliations of reporters who had been pre-selected to ask questions. The notecards even showed Biden had advance knowledge of what questions would be asked.

\u201cLeaked Biden cheat sheet shows he received questions in advance\u201d

— TheBlaze (@TheBlaze) 1682544913

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