On Saturday, HuffPost will attend the White House Correspondents’ Association’s annual dinner in Washington, DC. This year’s event comes amid a sustained government assault on the federal workforce and the press, both without precedent in the United States.Trump seeks to use the power of the state to meddle in CBS News ― and appears to be succeeding. The White House has blocked access to The Associated Press for the crime of calling the Gulf of Mexico “the Gulf of Mexico”.  College students fear being kicked out of the US because of op-eds they have written. Prominent conservatives have salivated at the thought of denaturalising and deporting a journalist.HuffPost has been targeted, too. Weeks after eliciting Trump’s rage by asking pertinent questions aboard Air Force One, the Trump administration blocked HuffPost White House correspondent S.V. Dáte from a scheduled press pool appearance, in an act that broke with decades of precedent. After a sustained outcry, HuffPost was