The U.S. political editor of the Mail Online, the website for British paper the Daily Mail, suggested reporters covering the White House under President-elect Trump be drug tested twice a year.
David Martosko included the suggestion in his application to be White House press secretary, a post that eventually went to former Republican National Committee spokesman Sean Spicer.
Buzzfeed reported Sunday that Martosko had 13 ideas in his application for press secretary in a confidential memo to transition officials. Martosko believed the White House press corps should be randomly drug-tested in order to get credentials.
“Journalists who are at the White House more than one day per week should be subject to drug screenings to occur no more than twice a year at random times,” the proposal stated, according to the New York Post, which first reported the proposal. “Refusal to comply should exclude them from credentialing entirely.”
Martosko declined to comment on the matter to Buzzfeed.
