Trump argues in court filing that he can limit journalists' access to White House

[PostmodernProphet]

No.. Acosta doesn't ask soft questions.. He asks the questions that Americans want answered.. the questions they deserve to have answered. A press conference isn't a political rally.... unless you want to live in North Korea or Iran or Russia.

stop being an idiot.....if Acosta was in Iran he wouldn't have lost his press pass......he would have lost his head......

[Irish Exit]

I can't wait until the court rules against Trump, orders him to allow Acosta access to the WH again, and then he has to stand up there, humiliated like a big, fat LOSER and face his questions during the next press conference.

I'm gonna get a YUUUUUGE laugh out of that!!!

Fuck Trump.

Trump will win. There is no right to access the White House.

He also isn't the first to hate on the press: https://variety.com/2018/politics/ne...rs-1202782264/

Pulitzer Prize-winning national security reporter James Risen wrote in The New York Times that if Trump wants to jail a whistle-blower or use the FBI to spy on journalists, he got the playbook from his predecessor.
Obama, who campaigned on a promise to protect government whistle-blowers, made greater use of the Espionage Act to prosecute leakers and menace journalists than all other presidents combined.


Obama’s Justice Department accessed the personal email of a Fox News reporter and surveilled the reporter’s parents and colleagues. They seized the home, work and mobile phone records of journalists at the Associated Press.
Risen, who fought the administration to protect his sources, got so deep in his own legal battle with Obama that he selected a reading list for prison before the government finally backed off.
White House officials subverted the press in a number of ways while touting themselves as the most transparent in history.
Obama routinely banned news photographers from official events. He went months between press conferences and used social media to circumvent reporters.
First lady Michelle Obama took policy trips overseas with no press on her airplane. The White House scrubbed public visitor logs of names it didn’t want in the news.
The Obama administration posted the worst record in history for fulfilling requests for public records under the Freedom of Information Act.

[kudzu]

stop being an idiot.....if Acosta was in Iran he wouldn't have lost his press pass......he would have lost his head......

Its important that accredited reporters have access .. you can't have the president repeatedly saying you ask stupid questions because a woman has black skin.. Trump is crashing and he's taking his wife's mental health with him.

[kudzu]

Trump will win. There is no right to access the White House.

He also isn't the first to hate on the press: https://variety.com/2018/politics/ne...rs-1202782264/

[FONT="]Pulitzer Prize-winning national security reporter James Risen wrote in The New York Times that if Trump wants to jail a whistle-blower or use the FBI to spy on journalists, he got the playbook from his predecessor.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Obama, who campaigned on a promise to protect government whistle-blowers, made greater use of the Espionage Act to prosecute leakers and menace journalists than all other presidents combined.

[/FONT]
[FONT="]Obama’s Justice Department accessed the personal email of a Fox News reporter and surveilled the reporter’s parents and colleagues. They seized the home, work and mobile phone records of journalists at the Associated Press.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Risen, who fought the administration to protect his sources, got so deep in his own legal battle with Obama that he selected a reading list for prison before the government finally backed off.[/FONT]
[FONT="]White House officials subverted the press in a number of ways while touting themselves as the most transparent in history.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Obama routinely banned news photographers from official events. He went months between press conferences and used social media to circumvent reporters.[/FONT]
[FONT="]First lady Michelle Obama took policy trips overseas with no press on her airplane. The White House scrubbed public visitor logs of names it didn’t want in the news.[/FONT]
The Obama administration posted the worst record in history for fulfilling requests for public records under the Freedom of Information Act.

Can you please name the reporters in question?

Time to take a look at the lies you have promoted.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ob...ss-conference/

[CFM]

Its important that accredited reporters have access .. you can't have the president repeatedly saying you ask stupid questions because a woman has black skin.. Trump is crashing and he's taking his wife's mental health with him.

You can't have people asking stupid questions and expecting others to not call it stupid because she's a woman with black skin.

[Irish Exit]

Can you please name the reporters in question?

Time to take a look at the lies you have promoted.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ob...ss-conference/

Apaprebtly you didn't bother reading the article since the reporter in question is the source

[anatta]

lout (lout) noun
A person regarded as awkward and stupid; an oaf. See synonyms at boor. *

Acosta clearly got the better of Trump. So if Acosta is a lout, what does that make Trump?

Trump didn't defeat Acosta with superior debate skills or intellect. Trump pulled rank on Acosta, and applied executive privilege.

As far as "hogging the mic" your double-standard embarrasses you!
Reporters have been asking follow-up questions of presidents for as long as I've been alive.
iirc Trump answered follow-up questions of other reporters AT THAT CONFERENCE !

So it's good reporting when Trump is lofting soft-ball questions, but when a responsible correspondent tries to follow-up on a serious topic, and the president with feet to the fire invokes his presidential authority instead of being responsive to the People, YOU call that "hogging the mic".

You're an embarrassment to civilization. You're an embarrassment to our society. And you're an embarrassment to published correspondents.
And Trump will only be making more trouble for himself if he doesn't re-instate Acosta. Trump would be vastly more shrewd to:
a) restore Acosta's white house press credential, and
b) never call on Acosta again.

To this point that's not good enough for Trump. Trump wants to win. Trump wants to spite. And Trump is perfectly willing to debase his office to do it, for Trump is more concerned about his petty personal perspective than about what is presidential, what is appropriate, what is lawful.

* Excerpted from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition © 1996 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Electronic version licensed from INSO Corporation; further reproduction and distribution in accordance with the Copyright Law of the United States. All rights reserved.

when is the last time you saw a reporters ask 4 questions after a long winded debate type premise on the first question? that's not a followup, it's a fillibuster

[kudzu]

Enrollment reached its highest point in the 1970s.

In 1973, 60,000 American Indian children are estimated to have been enrolled in an Indian boarding school.[17][18] The rise of pan-Indian activism, tribal nations' continuing complaints about the schools, and studies in the late 1960s and mid-1970s (such as the Kennedy Report and the National Study of American Indian Education) led to passage of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975.

This emphasized decentralization of students from boarding schools to community schools. As a result, many large Indian boarding schools closed in the 1980s and early 1990s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americ...arding_schools

[Getin the ring]

Trump can ban anyone he want's to from the white house grounds, he's the boss

move on, she lost

[Frank Apisa]

Our media outlets and press are privately owned NOT government owned.. Trump can't shut them down.

What bothers me is not whether he can or cannot.

What bothers me is that he is willing to try...and that the useful idiots who continue to support him are willing to defend his doing so.

[Frank Apisa]

there is no freedom to be an ass, at a press conference.

it amazes me that liberals or whatever u are are more concerned about acosta than social media censorship.

Acosta is there to ask tough questions...which is a great deal of what he was doing.

If there truly is "no freedom to be an ass at a press conference"...Donald Trump should avoid them no matter what.

[kudzu]

What bothers me is not whether he can or cannot.

What bothers me is that he is willing to try...and that the useful idiots who continue to support him are willing to defend his doing so.

I know.. Trump tries to use his press conference as a political rally. He doesn't want to answer any questions. He wants to promote his celebrity.

[Frank Apisa]

I haven't heard the voice of anyone asking him to do so.

I saw a video of some young gal assaulting him by grabbing his wrist and trying to wrench the mic out of his hand with no warning or verbal communication whatsoever, but nothing that shows or proves she or anyone else asked him to relinquish it.

That is exactly what I saw...and I heard him respond with, "Pardon me, Ma'am, I'm...(asking a question.)"

If there was an assault (I do not think there was)...it was on the part of the zealous intern.

[Frank Apisa]

Are you a pathetic liar, or just stupid.

Why can't he be both...which probably is the case?

[Truth Detector]

You really don’t think they can find a judge to go along?

I don't think there is a judge that would be willing to suggest that White House press events are a first amendment right.

I could be wrong.