CNN Reporter Banned From White House After "Tussle" With Female Trump Aide
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Wow. @ Acosta ’s credential suspended by WH after White House staffer attacked him and tried to grab the mic away.
4:57 PM - 7 Nov 2018
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WASHINGTON (SBG) - During a news conference at the White House Wednesday, a White House staffer attempted several times to pull a microph…
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Speaking of grabbing, she looks kind of cute. I wonder if the president* has "grabbed" her yet?
One thing we do know is that Trump staffers have a very difficult time finding dates, presumably because other folks are afraid they carry STDs which cause brain damage.
After Trump ordered Acosta to sit down and shut up , so to speak, the white house aide came forth and tried to grab the mic out of Acosta's hands. He resisted, and now he is banned from the White House. Thuggery everywhere !
He acted like a child, interrupted the president, refused to give up the mike and then "Tussled" as you put it with a young female aid. He purposely broke the rules and got exactly what he was grandstanding for. Now he can try to claim Trump is suppressing freedom of the press and plenty of dumb asses will jump on the bandwagon. It's called fake news.
Acosta simply proved by his ongoing rude and arrogant actions that Trump was right in what he was saying about the press, especially fake news CNN. I don't remember the media treating Obama this way, in fact, they fawned over him and never asked a tough question.
I believe her.
Actually no! The president acted 'like a child.' He is now on the taxpayer's dime. He can answer the question or say, "At this time I do not feel comfortable in commenting."
And, there wasn't any 'tussle.'
As far as 'fake news.' If it weren't for 'fake news' Trump would not be president. "Lock Her Up" and all of that spin, ya know?
Speaking of 'fake news.' Gee, the Caravan Hysteria has suddenly faded 'Out Of The Blue And Into The Black.' Funny how that works, right?
Karoli Retweeted Sarah Sanders
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She put her hands on HIM, you two-faced lying, southern drawling witch.
The only free press Trump believes in is when it sides with him. Saunders is so totally indoctrinated by all things Trump that she can't see the forest for the trees.
This administration has created so much animosity among it's citizens. This is such a ridiculous situation. How is this happening in our country? This WH is completely out of control.
trump says the nastiest things, lies constantly, yet his supporters get all bent out of shape when someone calls him on it.
Unreal.
Conservatives love to dish it out but they can't take it when someone does the same to them.
This is a presidential press conference, not a forum for some whack job reporter to make a speech. I love the way Trump let Jimbo talk himself out of a job.
Acosta wasn't fired and his co-workers and employee support his actions. Sarah Sanders lied and she was called out for her lies.
Oops.
Who but a liar would be willing to be the spokesman for a pathological liar?
Greg Jones didn't say that Acosta was fired from CNN. The WH "fired" him by pulling his correspondent privilege.
Yep, that's what I said yesterday, but these idiots can't read!
Which actually I don't think he can legally do.
You're conflating a person with a history of getting into fights with politicians and the potential of being a physical threat to White House staffers (Sherrill) with someone who actually got physical with a White House staffer in a White House press conference. There is a huge difference between the two. The one hadn't done anything in the White House to be banned for, just the fear that there might be something due to his history, and the other having actually done something caught on video.
And I have seen the video. Saying he assaulted her is laughable. Get real.
Repeating a lie does not make it true.
Where did I say assault in my previous comment?
Same thing. He did not "get physical" with her.
Hell by this so called standard, anyone can be arrested just by accidentally brushing up against someone on the bus.
I don't know which video you watched, but I watched both a side-by-side comparison between the video that was aired the night of the incident and the White House released video and I watched the video from that night as well before seeing the comparison video. In all the video, he brings his arm down to knock her hands away from the microphone. That is getting physical with her.
I have watched the video as well.
No he did not. She forcefully tried to grab the mic.
He did not intentionally try to do anything to her.
Funny, only people that believe he tried to swat her away seem to be trump supporters.
There is also a doctored (fake) video being touted by sanders and infowars.
Obama did it.
Nixon and other presidents also did it. You can look those up for yourself. Very interesting history reads!
Nope. Nowhere in either of those articles does it say Obama banned a reporter from the White House.
Read the first link more carefully and read between the lines.
You can repeat it all you want. No where in there does it say Obama banned a reporter from the white House.
You can nitpick all you want. Blocking and banning are the same thing.
It is not nitpicking. You are trying to conflate perceived flow of information with a reporter being blocked from the grounds.
Nowhere near the same thing.
No reporter was banned from entering the White House in that article.
His time with the mic was over, his question was asked and Trump had said "Next." She was doing her job and he refused to let her do her job and physically blocked her from doing so by bringing his arm down. Didn't you read what I said about the videos? I watched the original video and the comparison video between what the White House released and the original video. I saw little difference between them.
Finally! He is barred. That was my suggestion earlier, even before his tussle with the young woman.
Tussle ? She practically assaulted him, grabbing at his microphone. He held on to it. She's another trump thug.
Keep twisting and spinning.
She was obviously signaled by Trump to try and pry the mic from Acosta. It is a shame bright young people have fallen prey to trump's wickedness and go to Washington hoping to help him ruin America.
It's so difficult to have conversations with people who refuse to accept reality but live in the world of Trump. I just can't respect those who aren't capable of defending their position from a place of truth. My "ignore" list is getting longer and longer.
Was that Acosta's mike?
Indeed, which is why I usually just mock them and laugh at them!
How you get from that that Acosta attacked her will have to be one of the great unsolved mysteries of our time.
She is watching Trump. He gives her a hand signal and she jumps up to try and grab the mike.
This is how one of Trump's favorite fake news sites, Gateway Pundit, reported this story
BREAKING NEWS.
Jim Acosta’s White House press pass has been suspended following the incident wherein he assaulted a female White House staffer on Wednesday.
Agreed. It's also difficult to have a conversation with people who refuse to accept the fact that others do have, and are equally entitled to have, opinions and beliefs different than their own.
And that seems to happen with some people here on NT. To the extent that they feel the need to attack anyone who does not totally agree with their own way of thinking.
I have to wonder if that is the way they deal with people in their life outside of NT. ? ?
yeah, and it's not limited to the republicans.....
Whoever do you mean?
No, it was his dick.
That might help explain the silly look on his face.
And why the woman was so avid in her grabbing.
If Acosta had done to her what she did to him she would have had him arrested for assault on the spot. And Trump's encouragement for violence was there for all to see. But, once again, the Republicans chose to turn a blind eye and put the blame on Acosta.
There is no excuse for what that women did. None. I am surprised that Trump did not applaud her then and there.
Actually it was, and her mic, and my mic, and yours! It was a press conference in the WHITE HOUSE! She had no right to try to physically impose her will on Acosta and you all know it! That's just like the right to change the narrative despite the FACTS
That mike, like everything else in the White House, belongs to the people of the USA. Since Trump has dodged his taxes for years I'd bet Acosta paid more for it than Trump.
Dude - if you have no problem with the President grabbing women's pussies and kissing them whenever he wants without their permission then you have some serious chips in your moral compass if this situation has upset you. This situation is ridiculous and which I might add is based on another lie from Sarah Sanders this years nominee for "Christian" of the Year.
Huh??!!....I'm going to keep it civil and just ask you to reread my comment!
Hahahaha - I think I responded to the wrong post.
I wouldn't call it assault. It was certainly inappropriate, he refused to give up the mic, purposely broke the rules and was very rude. He certainly doesn't deserve and should not be allowed to attend any more briefings.
Bullshit. She didn't need hand signals. She tried to grab the mic after the president told Acosta he was done. Did you even watch the video you posted?
It was her microphone to being with, and he forcibly pushed her arm away. Watch the video again closely. Would you want your daughter to be bullied like this?
Because it was her Job. His turn was over and her Job was to take the mike and give it to the next reporter. They use only one mike to maintain order and prevent 25 people from yelling out questions at once. She didn't grab him, She grabbed the mike and I think she was surprised he didn't let go so she stepped aside, If I were Trump I wouldn't have insulted him I would have told him "You're all done here" and had the Secret Service escort him from the building. I wouldn't call what she did or he did an Assault, but he did use his size and strength to prevent her from doing her job and taking the mike, it was just rude disrespectful behavior on his part to the Woman and the President. It was a Whitehouse press conference and if you're lucky enough to be allowed to attend you're expected to follow the rules and be respectful, He broke the rules and now He's Gone, and good riddance. If this exact same thing had happened at a Obama press conference the Left would be screaming for blood if a rightwing reporter had used his size and strength in his refusal to relinquish the mike to a Female Whitehouse Intern who was just trying to do her job and they would have applauded Obama for doing what Trump did. Hypocrisy ! At least I can honestly say my opinion of the situation wouldn't change no matter who the sitting President was, bad conduct is bad conduct.
That is so ridiculous as to be completely silly.
That is fucking stupid.
Taxpayers paid for the chairs the reporters sit on.
Does that mean you can take one home?
phhht!
At the 15 second mark Trump wags his finger. She jumps up and races to grab the mic from Acosta's hand. She wanted to please the boss right on cue.
The young lady tried to pry the mic from Acosta who was still talking.
When have you ever seen anyone who was still talking relinquish a microphone?
As pathetic as this press conference was on Trump's part, I'm not sure it was his worst. He has a lot of ridiculous performances in front of the press to choose from, and we would have to go to the video tape.
How embarrassing that you guys are resorting to who owned the microphone. Lol. Let's take it a step further and find out EXACTLY who owns that microphone! It is highly unlikely that a hot little White House intern actually owns the microphone. Will the true microphone owner please stand up - we need your input!
A version of that happens every day on Newstalkers.
He didn't take it home. He was using it. Just like he was using the chair.
It's not "his microphone." She has the right to possess it. Not him.
The White House owns and has authorized the intern to possess it and lend it out to reporters for the purpose of asking two questions each. Reporters are expected to return the microphone when it is demanded so it may be shared with others. Acosta, asked and got answers to two questions but wanted to keep going. He had no right to possession of the microphone at that time and trying to retain his unlawful possession by force is arguably attempted robbery if he meant to keep it, some variety of trespass to chattels at minimum. Legalize aside, Acosta is an entitled bully.
It's not his microphone, he relinquishes it like everyone else is supposed to do after their question is answered, instead he argued with the President rather than ask a question, would not turn over the microphone, would not sit down and HE WAS THE THUG!!!
Funny how you can't see that.
No...but I guarantee you she can't pull one out from under me while I'm sitting on it!
Really? How so?...please elaborate!
Well, I guess it is a good thing you weren't there and she didn't try to take your chair!
LOL!
It's trumps America now, lucky he didn't pull a gun and blow her head off for grabbing at him like that.
Good thing it didn't happen at Mar-a-Lago, where he legally could have stood his ground.
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I am sure the progressive press groupies follow him like lapdogs.
"Infowars editor Paul Joseph Watson tweeted out a video of the incident that was doctored to make it look like Acosta chopped the woman’s arm with his hand.
Less than an hour later, Sanders tweeted out the doctored video, writing, “We will not tolerate the inappropriate behavior clearly documented in this video.”
Comparing the actual footage of the news conference with the Watson/Sanders videos clearly shows that the latter has been manipulated."
Conservative Republicans like Sarah Huckabees actions indicate that they have no shame or honor. It also indicates they're incredibly gullible as one as high up in the administration as Sarah Huckabee could be so monumentally fooled into thinking something happened that now one saw while it was actually happening. It's not like it was an obscure news conference no one was watching, millions of eyes were glued the train wreck that was Trumps rambling press conference.
Right...she practically knocked this big bully off his feet. Hope he didn't get bruised by her aggressive attack!
So now it's OK for arrogant media male asswipes to assault young female interns??
There was no assault unless you're watching the doctored infowars video like a conspiracy theory lemming.
Then why didnt they use that as an excuse? Why use a doctored tape and lie when they could have just used that? Because they know that would've been a bogus reason to pull his pass that's why!
This actually happened to Reagan once, you know what he did?
He excused himself and left the briefing and didn't return.
Word was put out to the press corp that there would be no more briefings if such was going to happen again.
(and it went from the press corp to the editors, which was where it was meant to go)
It never happened again.
Why? WH press corp idiot was "Counseled" to knock off his bullshite.
For the press corp it is all about access, without access your nothing.
This was stupid. there are much much more effective ways of dealing with crap like this....
I agree to a point. The problem is that this isn't the 80's anymore and civility has went the way of the dodo. The point is, What Reagan did wouldn't work today I'm afraid.
And that my friend, is the saddest part of all.....
Yep, all parties clearly could have handled it better
Man Bullies Women.....AGAIN !
White Men are such pigs ! (#metoo)
And where are the feminists to stand up for her? Nowhere to be found.
suspended until further notice? don't your breath...
bye bye jimmy boy.
Meh, he knows how the rules work for the WH press-corps and knowingly broke them. He's reaping what he's sown and will be replaced easily with another, self important, dime a dozen reporter.
No news at eleven .....
Apparently He asked the wrong questions.
That was sarcasm, there are no wrong questions our Government is accountable to all of us of which the Press is a part.
Actually Trump answered the questions and tried to move on. You don't get three or four questions and you're not there to argue with the president either.
Uh.....what was Acosta's question? It must be in there somewhere, amongst all the disrespect, arguing with and lecturing Trump, bullying a young female intern, and refusing to sit down. That disgraceful action of forcibly touching and pushing her arm away is what got him booted.
The format of these things is that a reporter gets a question and a follow-up, i.e. 2 questions. It's not a one-on-one interview where Jim Acosta just gets to ask all the questions he wants or gets to argue with the president. Acosta got his two questions, which the president did answer, and he tried to keep going even though the president was trying to give other reporters a chance. Acosta was out of line.
If he is going to be someone who ignores the rules of the press conference at the expense of other reporters and will physically fight an intern (barring her with his arm and outmuscling her) for the microphone (and it's not even his microphone), he should have his credentials revoked. It was unprofessional and Acosta behaved like an entitled bully.
Acosta went on for over seven minutes hammering away at several issue against T-rump Eventually landing on the immigrant/invader issue. He asked his question got a direct answer, asked his followup, got a direct answer to that, and then went on a rant, refusing to give up the mic as T-rump was trying to get a question from someone else in.
So at that point it became a back and forth, Acosta trying to turn it into some kind of rancorous, hate filled debate, (attacking like many of the hard core do right on this site) until T-rump said enough and instructed the young lady to take the mic away.
When she tried to do her job, Acosta, (I guess the best way to describe it) SLAPPED her hand away from the mic, refusing to give it up. And kept going on with his rant. (he was trying to create something just like this discussion)
That man if he is going to act the thug and try to dominate a news briefing with his aggressive hate, shouldn't have a WH press pass.
And properly, it was removed, If your going to act like a teeny bopper demonstrator at a political rally at a WH briefing, you don't belong there.
CNN and Acosta and his media allies can spin it any way they like.
He was being an ass.
But of course, like most hardcore progressives in the media, he thinks he has a right to be an ass.
You nailed it exactly. Hopefully he will fade away, never to be seen again. But CNN will probably make a martyr out of him and reward him with his own prime time show.
The personal opinion of anyone for or against a reporter should be irrelevant. This looked entirely staged with the aide taking cues from a couple of places in the room, including POTUS.
A strong leader can and should be able to handle any questions. The fact that Trump cannot handle these questions even if the questions are wrong, is a testament to the lack of character of POTUS, not the reporter.
The reality TV show atmosphere and high school mean kid tactics that Trump loves to play on, is beneath the office. This is not a reality show to manipulate or play with in order to stoke divisions or appease Trump's fragile ego.
I don't like a lot of different reporters, I don't like Fox, I don't like the fact Infowars was given a press pass, but reporters should be allowed regardless of network affiliation be able to do their jobs without being targeted because the reporter is not liked.
It isn't about a reporter's style or likability, it is about allowing questions to be asked and the burden of dealing with negative questions is on the Press Secretary or POTUS. The burden is theirs.
Trump loves the media, the press, and coverage, he always has, he is just wrongly manipulating the media in some pretty bizarre ways to gain sympathy from his base to cover up for his own personal vendettas and his own very fragile ego.
Trump is playing one of his favorite characters, PT Barnum and Trump loves the circus, he loves being famous, he loved being a TV star, he loved making cameos in movies.
This was totally ridiculous and blown out of all reasonable proportion and the base just goes along, until Trump turns against FOX for some reason then blocks Fox or Infowars.
Someone just posted this,
LOL Intern feed... Love it!
They missed Rock-Paper-Scissors.
I have a Facebook friend with a very twisted sense of humor who posted that.
Can’t watch it, not a member of narcissistbook .....
Neither am I and it played fine.
Lol, it worked for me that time.
Hilarious!