BREAKING: White House Suspends Jim Acosta's Press Credentials

[highplainsdem]

Source: Mediaite

The White House has suspended the press credentials of CNN’s Jim Acosta following today’s testy press conference clash with President Donald Trump.

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In a statement, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders blamed the suspension of privileges on Acosta placing his hands on a young woman.

“President Trump believes in a free press and expects and welcomes tough questions of him and his Administration. We will, however, never tolerate a reporter placing his hands on a young woman just trying to do her job as a White House intern,” Sanders wrote.

She added: “This conduct is absolutely unacceptable. It is also completely disrespectful to the reporter’s colleagues not to allow them an opportunity to ask a question. President Trump has given the press more access than any President in history.”

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Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/online/breaking-white-house-suspends-jim-acostas-press-credentials/

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Editing to add a tweet from Reuters' Jeff Mason with an image showing the full text of Sarah Sanders' statement:

Link to tweet

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[Moostache]

1. The entire press corp MUST stay away until this is reversed...period.

No exceptions...

[TeamPooka]

40. [phone]

[Grasswire2]

51. No No No No NoNo No NO WRONG!!!!!

The press must demonstrate to the world that it utilizes the Constitutional guarantee that the people MAY QUESTION THEIR GOVERNMENT and show up every freaking day to do so.

If the press were to defer that duty, further encroachments on the First Amendment would begin.

Every day that a reporter stands up to ask a question is a day when the right to do so is cemented, again.

So stop with this NONSENSE.

Support the free watchdog press. It's the only check we have against tyranny for now.

[Moostache]

52. The nonsense is currying favor with a capricious dictaror

The idea is not to stop asking questions, it is to stop taking shit from the tin pot orange anus.

You boycott him for his actions not to abdicate the roll...

[rzemanfl]

2. Fucking Nazis. n/t

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. She opened her mouth. Does that make "more access than any president in history" a lie?

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. Ok, Free Press, the ball is in your court.

Are you going to support him, or are you going to let him twist in the wind?

Showtime.

[maxsolomon]

5. She was trying to take the microphone from him, right?

Fucking Gaslighters. This is how they'll strangle the Press.

[question everything]

6. Yes, who was that woman who tried to take his microphone?

Did not watch the actual press conference - cannot watch when Whiny Donny is on - but Matthews ran a clip.

Also when he told Yamiche Alcindor that asking him about being a "nationalist" was a racist question.

[Cetacea]

33. Twice. He didn't let her on the first attempt. eom

[More_Cowbell]

7. She *infuriates* me

What a liar. And she calls herself a Christian.

[Va Lefty]

8. This is how they are framing it? What about president pussygrabber?

[C Moon]

9. Someone's getting a little testy the morning after. :D

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. Also, this is about controlling the news cycle, taking attention away from big Democratic Party win.

Getting in the news with crap that fires up his dwindling base. A day late mind you, and a dollar short.

It's not going to work. The total news about tRump's gross incompetence is bigger than even his ego, which irritates him endlessly.

[cstanleytech]

11. CNN needs to institute a network wide boycott of everyone in the Trump administration as well

as every Repugnant until the Whitehouse apologizes and re issues Acosta his credentials.

[Autumn]

12. Smokey eyed liar Suckabee forgets that the whole episode was on TV.

What does she do when she's not lying? Eat her young?

[appalachiablue]

24. Cyclops 'mother'.

[Garion_55]

13. thats weird

i only watched clips but i thought the woman walked up to him? and tried to grab the microphone from him? she initiated the contact?


maybe im wrong.

why not just say 'we dont like this guy. he is gone.'? be honest

[fierywoman]

30. She did initiate the contact -- and it was really rude.

[LakeSuperiorView]

14. The woman who tried to grab the microphone away from Acosta?

Looked to me like she initiated the contact and he put his left arm out to block her from his right hand with the microphone. Any contact was her pushing at him, he did not move from the spot he was standing.

[bluestarone]

15. RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA

That's about all i can say here.

[iluvtennis]

16. Fabricated. Acosta didn't even touch her, she touched him. Here is the video.

@NBCNews
BREAKING: White House aide grabs and tries to physically remove a microphone from CNN Correspondent Jim Acosta during a contentious exchange with President Trump at a news conference.

Link to tweet

[SixString]

34. It was a setup.

Planned in advance.

Why else would the intern be this forceful in trying to get the microphone from Acosta?

Like a kid fighting over a toy.

[FakeNoose]

17. The media has to stop playing along

When the President is so unprepared that he cannot answer a simple question, it's not the reporter's fault. The President stages a temper tantrum to cover up the fact that he can't (or won't) answer questions. But all he had to do was prepare for the press conference. I'm sure he did nothing and went in cold, just like he always does.

This isn't Jim Acosta's fault, nor any other reporter's. They are doing their jobs and Cheeto isn't.
He's just a lazy tub of lard who's also a bully when he thinks he can get away with it.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

18. The young woman intern touched him first and did not seem upset at the interaction at all.

At about 30 seconds she invades his space a couple of times and then she puts her hand over his hand, grabbing his hand and the mic and tries to jerk it away.

SHS/tRump outrage is faux.

[still_one]

27. That isn't a young woman intern, that is one of his white nationalists nazis

[George II]

32. Exactly, SHE grabbed his hand, he merely recoiled and pulled the microphone back.

[CTyankee]

50. AND, he said "Pardon me, ma'am" in a very respectful way.

I've never seen anything like this at a presidential press conference...SMH...

[world wide wally]

19. The entire news media should have been boycotting this clown since the campaign.

YOU can take his microphone away and make him totally impotent.

[wolfie001]

20. Unfucking-believable!

That lying nazi bastard and his reichwing goons!! Pig face says, "He welcomes their tough questions"....Ha ha

[highplainsdem]

21. Dan Rather tweet: This is an attack on all the press. There should be complete solidarity.

Link to tweet

News the White House pulled Jim @Acosta’s credentials is not an attack on one journalist but all of the press. There should be complete solidarity. This is a moment for any Republican who says they believe in the Constitution to stand up.

[Va Lefty]

25. Thanks Mr Rather , but I'm not holding my breath for republicans to stand up.

[ffr]

45. Republicans wipe their bums with the constitution on a daily basis. Are you kidding?

They don't care about the troops. They don't care about the elderly or the young or the middle-class. They only care about themselves. Get real.

[unblock]

22. For placing his hands on a young woman? I thought they put that on the Supreme Court!

[Va Lefty]

26. Well played , my friend!

[mtngirl47]

23. CNN isn't even reporting on this yet....

Trump was totally an asshole and out of line in the way he spoke to Acosta and April Ryan today.

Almost every day I think to myself---how would the right wing nuts react if Obama or ANY Democrat did what Trump did??

For crying out loud I feel like we're living in a banana republic!

[MontanaMama]

28. If any member of the press corps

shows up for SHS or this pResident, they aren’t a free press. They’re tools. They’re dead to me if the gloves do not come off.

[forgotmylogin]

43. Other option: Make *every single question* about Acosta.

Don't ask anything else.

[elmac]

29. a little history lesson

Because administrations generally don’t want to be seen as deciding who is or isn’t a qualified journalist, it’s unheard of for a reporter to be suspended for the quality of his or her reporting or behavior, though there are a few notable cases of reporters being barred for security reasons.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2010/06/07/can-the-white-house-revoke-a-reporters-credentials/

WASHINGTON — A ruling issued on Monday by a federal judge in Manhattan, in a case brought by a freelance journalist without a lawyer, may interest the White House. The judge said that the New York Police Department may have violated the First Amendment by revoking the press credentials of the journalist, Jason B. Nicholas.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/28/us/politics/white-house-barring-reporters-from-briefings.html

[George II]

31. I saw that interchange, more than once. The young woman was the one who first....

...."placed hands on" Acosta. From the camera angle, which was very clear, Acosta NEVER touched her, he just pulled his hand back when she grabbed the microphone and his hand.

[bluestarone]

35. Jim has more of a right to be admitted to the white house that RUMP

I'm sure Jim is an American citizen AND pays TAXES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SergeStorms]

36. The ONE qualification to work for tRump.....

you must be able to lie like your job depends on it, because it does.

"President Trump has given the press more access than any President in history.”

These are the most disgusting liars on the planet. They don't deserve the air they breathe.

[Guilded Lilly]

37. Every journalist should use the one most terrifying weapon they have to deny what this...

Megalomaniac god-complex Cretin attention mutt fears the most...
Media silence.
Refuse to cover his repulsive words and raving attitudes. Don’t film his moronic actions and block the clips from reaching the people. Interview any and all around him, but refuse to be drawn into the lunatic’s twisted reality show buffoonery.
The Cretin thrives on attention. Give him none. He isn’t actually a working president and never has been. He is certifiable.

They won’t because they are invested in the drama. They need his ignoble idiocy.
But a 48 hour hard ban on the Cretins voice and face on any news feed would be tremendous relief for our country.

[lutherj]

38. Trump's problem is he didn't do it right. He didn't grab her by the . . . Ok, never mind. N/t

[keithbvadu2]

39. Coming from Donald who bragged about grabbing women by the genitals.

Coming from Donald who bragged about grabbing women by the genitals.

Maybe Dubya's pal Jeff Gannon can use WH press credentials again.

[onit2day]

42. On the back of her shirt it reads "Everybody else has", and Warning, might lose fingers

More deplorable Trump supporters

[NurseJackie]

46. Oh dear... ain't she a beauty? So classy! (She's a hot mess.)

[IronLionZion]

48. The Trump administration believes their voters are stupid and gullible.

They're not wrong.

[BlueIdaho]

41. Why does the media even show up at the WH?

Let the President send out press releases and report that. There is no news coming from Donny or Sarah Fuckabee Sanders, just propaganda.

Starve Donny of the spotlight and he’ll weep like a baby.

[ffr]

44. The wheels are coming off in the GOP's act of desperation.

They'll burn this country to the ground to stay in power. Don't underestimate them.

[IronLionZion]

47. If he had really assaulted her, they would nominate him for the Supreme Court or

draft him to run for president as a Republican

That's not what the video shows. And more people need to wake up and see the blatant lies.

[SpankMe]

49. Courage in reporting

Anyone remember Sam Donaldson? He was with ABC News and was probably more bombastic than Acosta. I don't think Sam ever got bumped from the WH.

[LanternWaste]

53. Those delicate snowflakes in the White House

become more slight, frail and tender every passing day.

Bless the little hearts of the idiots and half-wits whose biases will force them to translate this act of cowardice as heroism.

[Blue_Tires]

54. Banana Republic...