Why does the WH press-core association have so much power?  First amendment, freedom of the press. The WH Correspondents Assn is an independent Organization of recognized media organizations.  Who controls them?  The (((media))). And they are self controlling within the assn.  Why does such an organization in the bowels of the WH, seem as though they have more power than the Executive Branch?  Partly because Trump allows them act out like elementary children, exposing themselves as the political hacks they are and their coordinated  "gotcha" journalism. Trump could revoke WH press passes but chooses not to in order to remind us every day what these people do to deceive the people.