‘OUT!’ Trump orders CNN star Jim Acosta to leave Oval Office after reporter’s newest outburst

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  1. guavaball

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    Love it
     
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    Because people who despise POTUS will cling to any blazing wreckage no matter how stupid it is to do so?
     
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    You said "always". VC has the same problem. Never deal in absolutes unless you want to embarrass yourself.
     
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    I do. Thanks.
     
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    You sound just a few steps away from Nazi Germany.

    Creepy.
     
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    They know it too, but much like other topics you simply aren't supposed to acknowledge it out loud. Makes people feeeeeel bad.
     
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    In general, journalists and politicians are as bad as each other, very much playing the same games with actually very similar intentions. I’ve no doubt this journalist, like many others, regularly asks pointed questions to try to get headline-grabbing responses but then Trump, like many other politicians, regularly makes generic and evasive statements to try to avoid those same headlines (or generate favourable ones). He just isn't very good at it. He was asked some pretty crude questions but they could have been closed down with a brief statement explaining the principles a consistent and coherent immigration policy.

    The problem with statements like “I want them to come from everywhere” is that it is in direct contradiction to actual government policy banning immigration from several specific countries (the legitimacy of that policy is irrelevant in this context). It sounds insincere, which will lead people to continue to wonder about the things he’s alleged to have said which obviously triggered those specific questions in the first place. I’m not convinced Trump is aware of how insincere many of his statements sound to a lot of people and it doesn’t seem like he has anyone on his team willing and able to tell him.
     
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    Race baiting questions are not "hard". They're meant for empty sound bites to whip up the leftist base. You know this, so why the fake shock and drama??
     
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    Maybe he should just allow his two puppet news organizations in, Fox News and Breitbart.
     
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    LOL Says the guy who supports the LGBT targeting Christians with anti free speech laws just like the Germans did to the Jews in the 1930s.

    Grab a mirror.
     
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    Right, but the righty voters, righty media and righty politicians are honest.
     
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    The left is nothing but a bunch of gigantic hypocrites, phonies and cowards. The right ain't much better, but there are some heroes amongst us, thankfully. And at least our initiatives have some honor in them even if Trump is the only one willing to say it out loud and try to make a difference.
     
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    .................and the right isn't.

    There are heroes on both sides.

    Funny how those initiatives only come about when they are in your favor.
     
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    Your opinion is already discredited. So who cares what you think.
     
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    Yes,
    Yes,
    and yes, I probably would too.

    Yes. Take off the partisan blinders for a moment and step back and see what this man has actually accomplished, and the passion he has for America -- which is particularly a refreshing change from his predecessor.

    :D Good one, ocean.

    Exactly. This is the heart of the matter.
     
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    How quickly the left forgets what the EX President did.

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/president-obamas-feud-with-fox-news/

    After months of taking incoming fire from the prime-time stars of Fox News, the Obama White House is firing back, charging that FOX News is different from all other news.

    "FOX News often operates almost as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican party," said Anita Dunn, White House communications director.

    "If media is operating basically as a talk radio format, then that's one thing, and if it's operating as a news outlet, then that's another," Mr. Obama said.

    And the White House has gone beyond words, reports CBS News senior political correspondent Jeff Greenfield. Last Sept. 20, the president went on every Sunday news show - except Chris Wallace's show on FOX. And on Thursday, the Treasury Department tried to exclude FOX News from pool coverage of interviews with a key official. It backed down after strong protests from the press.
    President Trump should follow EX President Obama's lead. Time to revoke Acosta's WH press credentials. There are plenty of other left aligned "journalists" covering the White House.
     
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    If there were any heroes on the left they would have called out Obama on his B.S. and ulterior motives. They would have convicted Lois Lerner and surely Hillary Clinton and the whole DNC. But they won't! Because they are either cowards caring only for their own skin or they have a mission that is evil but cannot be deterred. And the media is as guilty as the devil in their support of this sickness.
     
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    Exactly. History is full of examples of what happens when the 4th Estate becomes the tool of a political party.

    Everyone should be concerned about that. The fact that is not true is alarming.
     
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    Kind of like the right does with Pres. Trump.

    Wow do you really have your head stuck in the sand. Where in the hell have you been the last year? You try and come across as being holy or morally superior to everyone else, but when all is said and done you are just the average Trumper who doesn't give a damn what the guy says or does as long as it gets your ass backward agenda through.
     
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    Why don't you grow up and get over your Trump obsession? It is your beloved "out" so you do not have to face facts.

    It is the ways of a child. The left is nothing but liars and hypocrites, but because the media controls the minds of the majority you can do as you please and not be held accountable. You don't get it. Or, you do get it and do not care.

    The Virgin Mary was right on when she said "pride is the cancer of the soul."
     
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    You mean like how all the trust fund warrior commanders are actually in a safe space environment in a different country?

    I can see the similarity in that Trump is in a different universe.
     
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    He’s a Democrat who poses as a journalist. Nothing more, nothing less.
     
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    I think the WH needs to use a means test, in order for permission of a journalist to enter in and ask questions. What test? Oh, the basic test. Get an independent non partisan, honest, journalist, to look at the people from the media who want access, and determine if they are real journalists, by looking at their work to see if they practice journalistic standards. If they do, admit them. If they do not, kick em the arse and send them back to their business of doing propaganda.

    I would bet that hardly anyone in that press pool are journalists, if you define that by practicing the standards and exhibit honesty and integrity in reporting. These people would be at home working for the National Enquirer.
     
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    He likes "order" apparently too ;)
     
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    We started returning it there on January 20, 2017.
     
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