Trump Throws Down the Gauntlet on Acosta, Reveals His Incredible Plan If Jim Starts Acting Up
So Jim Acosta is back in the White House press room. Finally. It’s about time other reporters stopped asking questions.
Acosta’s press pass was restored, at least for the time being, by federal Judge Timothy J. Kelly on Friday, who said that the White House hadn’t given Acosta “due process” to explain himself.
“The opportunity to be heard seems especially important in this case,” Kelly’s ruling said, according to the Washington Times. “The government must provide Mr. Acosta due process if it is to revoke his hard pass.”
The facts could be seen on C-SPAN, mind you, a channel Judge Kelly’s cable package doesn’t offer. It also doesn’t offer any of the other channels which showed exactly what happened — namely, that Acosta kept asking questions long after another reporter had been called on and that he touched a White House intern who tried to take away the microphone so that he could keep on talking. I’m guessing he has one of those cable packages which only gives him HGTV and the Smithsonian Channel.
At least for Trump, however, he swears this is no big thing. In an interview with Fox News, he said he’d just throw Acosta out if he tried to pull anything like that again.
Fox host Chris Wallace asked about the ruling in a clip of the interview set to air this Sunday.
President Trump on what will happen next time CNN’s Acosta misbehaves: “We’ll throw him out or we’ll stop the news conference … if I think somebody is acting out of sorts I will leave I will say thank you very much, everybody, I appreciate you coming and I’ll leave.” pic.twitter.com/dDCIgeXnOJ
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) November 16, 2018
“A federal judge who you appointed has just ruled that you must give CNN reporter Jim Acosta his press pass back,” Wallace said. “Your reaction to the ruling, sir.”
“Yeah, it’s fine. I mean, it’s not a big deal,” Trump said.
“What they said though, is that we have to create rules and regulations for conduct, etc. etc.”
“We’re doing that, were going to write them up right now. It’s not a big deal and if he misbehaves we’ll throw him out or we’ll stop the news conference.”
“What are your rules going to be?” Wallace said. “What is it that you’re saying?”
“We’re writing them now,” Trump said.
“We’ll have rules of decorum — you know, you can’t keep asking questions.
“We had a lot of reporters in that room, many many reporters in that room and they were unable to ask questions because this guy gets up and starts, you know, doing what he’s supposed to be doing for him and for CNN and, you know, just shouting out questions and making statements too.”
“But I will say this — look, nobody believes in the First Amendment more than I do,” Trump added.
“And if I think somebody is acting out of sorts I will leave I will say thank you very much, everybody, I appreciate you coming and I’ll leave.
“And those reporters will not be too friendly to whoever it is that’s acting up.”
If the rules of decorum involve not being able to filibuster your questions or not using question time to make statements, we might as well just give Jim Acosta his send-off now. For the moment, however, there will be a lot more Acosta-hair and a lot less oxygen in the White House press briefing room.
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