Trump packed news conference with paid staffers to cheer and jeer as he bashed reporters
Trump packed news conference with paid staffers to cheer and jeer as he bashed reporters
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/trump-packed-news-conference-with-paid-staffers-to-cheer-and-jeer-as-he-bashed-reporters/
When Donald Trump berated and attacked CNNs Jim Acosta at his first press conference in 168 days, several attendees clapped and cheered in support of his tirade on quote-unquote fake news.
As it turns out, several of those attendees were actually paid staffers, who joined the news conference to provide moral support to the president-elect, Politico reports.
Trump called the Q&A very familiarity territory, despite it being his first time willingly facing the press since winning the election. We stopped giving them because were getting quite a bit of inaccurate news, Trump reasoned to the room.
The paid staffers, alongs with his children and Mike Pence, bolstered Trump as he bashed the media and intelligence communities. At one point attendees shouted no! when the president-elect rhetorically asked, do you honestly believe that Hillary Clinton would be tougher on Putin than me?