Posted on 11/08/2018 11:54:56 AM PST by yesthatjallen
Rep. Gerry Connelly (D-Va.) declared Thursday that CNN's Jim Acosta was "deliberately set up" by President Trump in a "staged" event involving an intern on Wednesday that led to the CNN correspondent getting his press pass suspended by the White House.
Connelly's comments were made to TMZ outside of Congress on Thursday.
"Do you think he’s going to have a better relationship with all these reporters?" Connelly was asked.
"I would not argue that he’s going to have a better relationship with the reporters, given the fact he pulled Jim Acosta’s White House press credentials yesterday in kind of a staged setup," Connelly replied. "It was kind of a disgusting scene. So I think it raises very worrying questions about any respect at all he has for the free press and the role of the free press in a democratic society."
"When you say staged, do you think he came in to distract?" TMZ followed.
"I believe they had an intern deliberately set up Jim Acosta. Yeah, I think that was pretty clear," Connelly argued.
In a statement Wednesday night, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders claimed Acosta "[placed] his hands on" a young female White House intern who attempted to take a microphone from him earlier in the day.
“We will ... never tolerate a reporter placing his hands on a young woman just trying to do her job as a White House intern. This conduct is absolutely unacceptable," said Sanders. "As a result of today’s incident, the White House is suspending the hard pass of the reporter involved until further notice."
Acosta took to Twitter to call Sanders's assertion that he put his hands on the intern, "a lie."
Good riddance.
Marion “Crackhead” Berry quote comes to mind.
Right. Trump totally forced Acosta to act like an unhinged Leftist.
The same kind of “mind” at work here that you saw during the Kavanaugh hearings. A steadfast refusal to admit reality.
Trump ‘deliberately set up Jim Acosta’ with ‘staged’ incident.
I read almost the same thing on a FR post last night.
I do not recall the poster’s name or the post verbatim, but the gist of the post was that Trump staged the incident because he wanted to get rid of Acosta.
DUers are saying the same thing.
If he did even better.
Well said. The disrespect has to end. Acosta hides a lot of malice behind his dead affect.
How did Trump get Acosta to agree to play the role of “complete a$$hole” when they were staging the show?
Is Acosta so predictable that Trump knew he would be a jerk and hog the microphone and push the aides hand away?
Or does Trump see the future?
Staged set up? Geez. Really?
Yea right, Jim Acosta has been so docile and gentle and fair. Who would think he could SUDDENLY be so belligerent, aggressive and angry. Like, there is no history there of anything that would suggest his behavior is anything less that professional and respectful.
(oozing sarcasm)
Bet the intern is a Russian spy.
Stop making them live. Have them closed door.
I think we should start saying Acosta is “stifling the freedom of speech of all the other reporters”...
If he wants to see a staged event he should look at Charlottesville, Terry McAuliffe, and Hillary.
Suburban Women must be proud. DEMOCRAT blaming young intern. Nice.
THE B*TCH SET ME UP!
Rep. Gerry Connelly (D-Va.) is likely the sleaziest Dem in the House. Everything that passes his lips is calculated, nothing that passes his lips is believable.
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