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DonViejo

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Tue Jun 12, 2018, 03:17 PM Jun 2018

Trump Campaign Manager Demands CNN's Jim Acosta Lose Press Credentials for Doing His Job

Source: Mediate



by Amy Russo | 2:57 pm, June 12th, 2018

President Donald Trump‘s 2020 campaign manager demanded CNN’s Jim Acosta be stripped of his press credentials simply for asking questions at the signing ceremony during the summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.

Brad Parscale tweeted the attack Tuesday afternoon, calling Acosta “an absolute disgrace” in response to a Daily Wire article which claimed he was “shouting” questions at the Singapore event, despite the fact that he was speaking in a normal register and performing his job as a reporter.




As Trump sat next to Kim and signed a document outlining a plan to approach denuclearization of the peninsula, Acosta asked, “Mr. President, did he agree to denuclearize?” Trump answered, “We’re starting that process very quickly.”

Acosta then continued his questioning, asking whether the two leaders had talked about Otto Warmbier, the American college student who mysteriously died after being detained in North Korea, but Trump did not reply.

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/online/trump-campaign-manager-demands-cnns-jim-acosta-lose-press-credentials-for-doing-his-job/
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Trump Campaign Manager Demands CNN's Jim Acosta Lose Press Credentials for Doing His Job (Original Post) DonViejo Jun 2018 OP
Brad Parscale ..................were did you get your money................. turbinetree Jun 2018 #1
I'll bet Brad Parscale is in jail before 2020 comes around DeminPennswoods Jun 2018 #2
I join my fellow DU posters in calling Parscale a criminal who will be in jail soon. JDC Jun 2018 #3
I think of this graphic often miyazaki Jun 2018 #4

JDC

(10,129 posts)
3. I join my fellow DU posters in calling Parscale a criminal who will be in jail soon.
Tue Jun 12, 2018, 05:14 PM
Jun 2018

No doubt in my mind.

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