White House To Pull Acosta’s Pass Again After Temporary Court Order Expires
By Tyler Durden
The White House will pull CNN correspondent Jim Acosta‘s press credentials again after a 14-day temporary court-order expires, according to the network, which has asked for an emergency hearing to defend Acosta’s access.
“Friday’s court ruling means that a temporary restraining order is in effect for 14 days. But [White House] officials sent Acosta a letter stating that his press pass is set to be suspended again once the restraining order expires,” reports CNN’s Brian Stelter.
CNN said in a statement that rescinding Acosta’s press pass again would threaten “all journalists and news organizations.”
“The White House is continuing to violate the First and 5th Amendments of the Constitution,” the network said, adding: “These actions threaten all journalists and news organizations. Jim Acosta and CNN will continue to report the news about the White House and the President.”
Acosta’s press credentials were pulled after a heated exchange with President Trump in which the CNN Senior White House correspondent refused to relinquish the microphone – batting a White House intern’s arm away as she attempted to take it from him.
U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly last Friday granted CNN’s request to restore Acosta’s hard press pass through a 14-day temporary injunction that expires on Nov. 30.
The ruling was limited, however, with Kelly stating that only Acosta’s Fifth Amendment rights to due process were violated. The judge, who was appointed by Trump, did not issue a ruling on whether the correspondent’s First Amendment rights were violated.
“I want to emphasize the very limited nature of this ruling,” Kelly said Friday. –The Hill
Following the decision, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that officials would “temporarily” reinstate Acosta’s hard pass, telegraphing that it would likely be pulled again once the ruling expired.
“Today, the court made clear that there is no absolute First Amendment right to access the White House,” Sanders said. “In response to the court, we will temporarily reinstate the reporter’s hard pass. We will also further develop rules and processes to ensure fair and orderly press conferences in the future.”
In a Sunday interview with Fox News‘s Chris Wallace, President Trump had a few ideas of his own on Acosta, including throwing him out.
“I think one of the things we’ll do is maybe turn the camera off that faces them because then they don’t have any air time, although I’ll probably be sued for that and maybe, you know, win or lose it, who knows,” said Trump. “I mean, with this stuff you never know what’s going to happen.”
Calling Acosta “unbelievably rude to [White House press secretary] Sarah Huckabee, who’s a wonderful woman,” Trump said his administration is currently formulating “rules and regulations” for White House reporters. “And if he misbehaves, we’ll throw him out or we’ll stop the news conference,” the president added. –Fox News
JUDGE RULES ACOSTA CAN CONTINUE HARASSING THE WHITE HOUSE
Press given the green light to disrupt press briefings
NOVEMBER 16, 2018
After CNN attack dog Acosta’s flagrant foul in the hallowed halls of the people’s house, CNN and Acosta filed a lawsuit against the White House.
VIDEO: LEFTIST REPORTERS OPENLY CALL TRUMP A RACIST TO HIS FACE
White House press conferences are out of control
NOVEMBER 8, 2018
White House press conferences are out of control, owing to the fact that leftist “reporters” are using them as a way of pushing their flagrant bias and anti-Trump agendas.
In the same conference that garnered headlines Wednesday for CNN’s Jim Acosta pushing a female aide around in order to continue arguing with the President, two other “journalists” essentially called Trump a racist to his face.
Both individuals posed their insults as questions, essentially saying ‘A lot of people say you are a racist, there is evidence to suggest you are a racist, are you a racist?’
Take a look below:
PBS reporter Yamiche Alcindor firstly accused President Trump of being the leader of the White Nationalist party.
Trump hit back with the response “Why do I have the highest numbers with African Americans… You’re a racist.”
Secondly another reporter with Yahoo News just outright asked Trump ‘have you ever used racist remarks?’
“No. I would never do that, and I don’t use racist remarks and, you know what? If I did, you people, you would have known about it,” Trump responded.
“I’ve been hearing there are tapes for years and years,” Trump said. “Number one, I never worried about it because I never did. I never used racist remarks. I have never used racist remarks.” the President added.
The Yahoo reporter wouldn’t let up and kept yelling into the mic about a “point of fact” that Trump’s poll numbers with black voters are not high, despite a Rasmussen poll showing a 40% approval rating among black respondents.
“When you talk about division, it’s people like this that cause division, great division,” Trump said, adding, “Point of fact is that I never used a racist remark. That’s the point of fact.”
Earlier in the conference, the same Yahoo reporter pestered the President about his tax returns. A dead horse that anti-Trumpers have been kicking for over two years, and refuse to relent on.
These people are following a blatant anti-Trump agenda, unsurprising given that almost everything on the networks they work for constitutes a constant effort to attack the President and claim he is a racist.
MEDIA SIDES WITH ACOSTA AFTER PHYSICAL CONFRONTATION WITH FEMALE WHITE HOUSE STAFFER
Imagine if the roles were reversed
NOVEMBER 7, 2018
The establishment media instantly sided with CNN activist in chief Jim Acosta after he became involved in a brief physical confrontation with a female White House staffer during today’s Trump press conference.
Acosta once again tried to make himself the center of attention with a series of rants directed at Trump that were dressed up as questions.
When Trump attempted to move on, Acosta refused to give up the platform.
A female White House aide whose job it is to hand the microphone to journalists then walked up to Acosta in a bid to retrieve it.
Acosta clearly uses his left arm to physically resist/restrain the woman.
The two then engaged in a brief physical confrontation, with Acosta wrestling back control of the mic.
NBC News reported the incident as follows;
“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.”
“This doesn’t describe what happened properly at all. It was her job to move the mic to the next person and he wouldn’t surrender it,” responded John Podhoretz.
Another ABC affiliate reported that the female staffer wrestled the microphone away from Acosta when he in fact overpowered her.
“Will @CNNPR address @Acosta assaulting a young woman working for the White House, or will they just congratulate him for his “courage”?” asked the Daily Caller’s Derek Hunter.
“There is more evidence Jim Acosta assaulted a women than Brett Kavanaugh,” quipped Jack Posobiec.
Imagine this had happened under Obama with the journalist being a conservative. The media would have undoubtedly reported the man as the aggressor.
One wonders whether or not Acosta would have tried to wrestle this woman if she’d been more insistent in trying to retrieve the microphone.
And how would the media have reported that?
‘White House aide violently assaults brave superhero Jim Acosta for speaking truth to power’?
Watch the entire exchange between Trump and Acosta below.
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