Acosta victory undermines media's Trump narrative

Pollak: Ironically, Jim Acosta's Victory Counters Media Narrative About Trump | Breitbart

The mainstream media are celebrating Friday’s decision by a federal judge to force the White House to restore CNN correspondent Jim Acosta’s “hard pass.”

Judge Timothy J. Kelly’s decision is being treated as a victory for the free press, and proof that the Trump administration’s decision was wrong and violated Acosta’s constitutional rights. But the decision undermined the picture of the Trump administration the media have sought to portray, in three ways:

 

I expect the never Trumpers here to be pretty quiet on the subject. The narrative has certainly proved to be just that, all talk with no substance.

 

Told ya.

 

And then there's the big one:

3. The president accepted the decision. President Trump accepted the validity of the decision. He also ordered the White House to develop new rules for press behavior, in conformity with the ruling that Acosta’s due process rights had been violated. Compared with Obama, who often tried to ignore court decisions he lost, Trump’s approach was refreshing — and the opposite of the “autocrat” image the media have contrived.

 

The only decision that the judge made was to issue a temporary restraining order. Trump is obeying the order to the letter. The judge said the reason for the order was denial of due process. The White House is putting together a list of rules for behavior.

Doing everything the judge wanted right down the line. When the 14 days are up, they intend to enforce their rules.

If it goes back to the same judge, they will lose again. He's not about to reverse his own order. But if it goes to the appeal process, I believe Acosta and CNN lose on the merits, because Judge Kelly is misinterpreting precedent.

The fact is they don't have to hold press conferences and they don't have to allow questions. At all. And above all, the president doesn't have to allow anyone into his home that he doesn't want there. And the White House is his home.