Trump's press secretary threatens CNN reporter's access to president-elect for asking a question
Acosta later tweeted that Spicer threatened to have him thrown out of the news conference if he asked another question.
Spicer demanded the reporter apologise, threatened to remove him, denied this threat, then retweeted himself making this exact threat
Jim Acosta, a senior White House correspondent for CNN, attempted to ask the president-elect a question at his New York press conference on Wednesday. First, Trump refused to answer. "I am not going to give you a question. You are fake news,” he said.
Trump blasted CNN after itreported the fact that both President Obama and President-elect Trump were briefed by US intelligence about allegations that Russian operatives claimed to have "compromising" personal and financial information on Trump. Trump himself talked about being briefed on this report, so its existence is undisputed.
Trumpslammedthe CNN report by conflating it with the BuzzFeed report, two completely different pieces of journalism.
BuzzFeed published the unverified and unsubstantiated report itself, a 35 page dossier containing salacious allegations concerningTrump's personal conduct written by former British intelligence officer who agencies find "credible".
CNN didn't disclose anything risque about the nature of thispersonal information.They have responded to Trump's criticism, saying thestand behind their original reporting.
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Incoming White House press secretary Sean Spicer lateWednesday asked CNN’s Acosta to apologise to Donald Trump for asking the President-elect aquestion, calling it“rude, inappropriate and disrespectful”.
After Trump dismissed Costa, he took a question from someone atBreitbart, awebsite that is staunchly pro-Trump and pro-white nationalism. A founding member of Breitbart, Steve Bannon, is now Trump'schief strategist.
Watchthe exchange between Trump and Costa, published on Raw Story. The people heard applauding Trump in this video as he criticises CNN as "Fake news"are paid Trump staffers, Raw Story reports.
Acosta wouldn't have raised his voice or repeated his question if Trump answered it the first time.
Yesterday was Trump's firstpress conference since July of last year. Trumpdoesn't make himself available to reporters outside of press conferences, or inside them.
Trump's press secretary fights the press
After the exchange between Trump and Acosta, Spicer repeated Trump's demandthat Acosta apologize for asking a question. Acosta pushed back, saying Spicer threatened to have him thrown out of the news conference if he asked another question.
Then Spicer denied that he ever threatened to removeCosta from future press conferences.
After Spicer denied that he ever threatenedAcosta's press access, he then retweeted a video of himself appearing on TV explaining how he threatened to revoke Acosta's press access.
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