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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 Trumps 2020 campaign manager demanded CNNs 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.
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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, Were 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
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turbinetree
(24,703 posts)1. Brad Parscale ..................were did you get your money.................
DeminPennswoods
(15,286 posts)2. I'll bet Brad Parscale is in jail before 2020 comes around
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JDC
(10,129 posts)3. I join my fellow DU posters in calling Parscale a criminal who will be in jail soon.
No doubt in my mind.
miyazaki
(2,244 posts)4. I think of this graphic often