Trump Owns CNN's Jim Acosta

No, thank you. I agreed with you from the beginning and I thought that you started a good thread because I remember better days in America.

It was her job to give the microphone to the next reporter. Someone gave her a command. Acosta should have surrendered the floor and the microphone at that point. He cannot order the President of the United States. Personally, I think that CNN should fire him.

 

Hmm, black belts only should apply for microphone handler!

 

She probably could have beat him up. Did you think Trump was angry when he stepped away from the podium? Cuban communist dissident Silvio Canto says that Trump should leave CNN alone because no one ever watches them. He should favor reporters from successful business organizations.

 

Yes when I saw President Trump's body language I felt his vibes - he wanted to physically assault Acosta but he did a good job of restraint.

Imagine the hulabaloo if he had stepped down from the podium and punched his lights out.

 

Now though, both CNN and Fox news have joined together in a law suite to try to have the White House restore his white house pass, as they are claiming violation of his first amendment rights, as he has the right to ask and abuse the president!

 

Acosta wouldn't shut up long enough for her to be heard.

 

CNN lawyers prevailed and Acosta gets his press pass back.

Apparently, a press association decides who can attend White House press conferences. I think that the President should decide who gets to enter the White House for any reason.

CNN has so few viewers that I wonder why they are even invited to cover anything by anybody anywhere anytime?

 

If the administration wanted to appeal the decision, it would eventually be reversed.

 

Trump will just refuse to call on CNN in the future unless they remove Acosta. I don't think that Obama ever called on Fox News, although Fox never stooped to the grandstanding that Acosta does day after day. Acosta is a nasty guy.

 

He's not a reporter at all. He's a left wing activist.

 

A ruling is imminent and I suspect, based on the restraining order, that it will be an unconstitutional ruling. The restraining order was out of order as well. If they appeal it, it will be reversed. The judge is simply wrong on the issue.

 

Klukowski: DOJ Should Appeal Court Order on CNN Acosta’s Press Pass


A federal judge ordered the Trump administration in Washington, DC, on Friday to restore the White House press credentials of CNN’s Jim Acosta. But the appellate precedent underlying that order is wrong, so the Justice Department should continue appealing it all the way to the Supreme Court, where the case should be dismissed under the political-question doctrine.

Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump appointee to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, held that stripping Acosta of his press credentials violated due process rights under the Fifth Amendment and issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) for immediate reinstatement while the litigation is ongoing.

Although the transcript of Kelly’s verbal order is not yet posted on the court’s docket, it appears that he ruled that the White House created a limited public forum by opening its grounds to reporters at all, and that certain due-process rights attach to any government action taking away those rights. Kelly ruled that the White House’s action lacked such procedural protections.

 

It don't make sense to me. I can't walk into the White House and ask questions. I think that the White House should pick up the power to control absolutely which organizations and which individuals can enter the press conference. CNN has no viewers and Acosta is both nasty and low IQ.

 

The judge is , quite simply, wrong. He either misread precedent or ignored it out right.

 

Agreed. He is an activist judge of some sort. He is charging money for a copy of his decision according to Mark Levin. Everything was done in secret and the press was not given any information.

No federal judge controls access to the White House.

The President should control what organizations are allowed in the White House as well as what reporters from those organizations. Dummies like Acosta should not be on national TV. We need reporters who are hard-working and honest. The Democrats have hidden behind the press because the Democrats have no leaders, but no Democrat would vote for a dummy like Acosta.