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<p>Stephen King and Don Winslow are willing to pay for a White House
press conference.<br>
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<p>Yesterday, 8 January 2020, the following exchange occurred on
Twitter:<br>
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<a title="9:27 AM · Jan 8, 2020"
href="https://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/1214961954168672256"
dir="auto" aria-label="Jan 8" role="link" data-focusable="true"
class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao r-1re7ezh r-1loqt21
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datetime="2020-01-08T17:27:57.000Z">Jan 8</time></a></div>
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lang="en"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x
r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">I’ll match that, making $150,000. But full
press corps.</span></div>
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Winslow</span></span></div>
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title="5:48 AM · Jan 8, 2020" aria-label="Jan 8"
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lang="en"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x
r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Dear </span><span class="r-18u37iz"><span
dir="ltr" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x
r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">@PressSec</span></span><span
class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo
r-qvutc0">,
It has been 301 days since The White House held a press
briefing.
I will donate $75,000 to </span><span class="r-18u37iz"><span
dir="ltr" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x
r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">@StJude</span></span><span
class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo
r-qvutc0"> in your name if you will hold a one hour press
conference *this week* with the full White House Press Corps.
What are you afraid of Stephanie?
Best,
Don Winslow</span></div>
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lang="en"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x
r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><br>
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r-16dba41 r-ad9z0x r-kc8jnq r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0"
lang="en"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x
r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">As far as money in politics goes, this is
preferable to hundreds of millions in billionaire television
advertisements.</span></div>
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lang="en"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x
r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><br>
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r-16dba41 r-ad9z0x r-kc8jnq r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0"
lang="en"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x
r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">On the other hand, citizens should not have
to pay for press availability from officials responsible to
the public.</span></div>
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