Breitbart's Milo Yiannopoulos will attend White House press briefing

Breitbart's Milo Yiannopoulos will attend White House press briefing
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Right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos says that he'll attend the White House daily pressing briefing on Friday.

“I’ll be there,” the Breitbart News editor told Yahoo News in an email.

As for how he got the credentials, Yiannopoulos said it wasn't hard.

"I'm a senior editor at America's most influential news outlet. How the f--k do you think?" Yiannopoulos told the New York Daily News in a Thursday email.

Yiannopoulos also stated he didn’t know if he will be called upon by White House press secretary Sean Spicer. 

But the 32-year-old openly gay Yiannopoulos attended another briefing in March, asking former Obama White House press secretary Josh Earnest if Facebook and Twitter are “punishing conservative and libertarian points of view" after he was banned from Twitter.

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Yiannopoulos's ban came after years of complaints that he used his account to egg on his hundreds of thousands of followers to harass opponents.

Friday's briefing comes two days after a speech Yiannopoulos was set to deliver at the University of California, Berkeley was canceled after violent protests broke out before the event. 

President Trump responded to the situation at Berkeley with a Thursday tweet morning that threatened to pull federal funds from the university.

More staunchly conservative  publications have attended the White House press briefings since Trump took office. 

The popular Gateway Pundit blog stated it will be sending a reporter, while far-right Infowars led by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones says Jerome Corsi will be their White House correspondent.