President Donald Trump took questions from the American media today in Poland, which CNN’s Jim Acosta called a “fake news conference”:
Trump finally held a news conference overseas. But he took a question from a friendly reporter and then attacked CNN as "fake news."
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) July 6, 2017
Isn't it a "fake news conference" to take a question from a reporter who is essentially an ally of the White House? https://t.co/vD7DgAZXIv
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) July 6, 2017
He’s bitching about the Daily Mail’s David Martosko, who interviewed for a White House job last month:
One of the questions came from a reporter who acknowledged he had just talked to WH about a job last month https://t.co/45jABeralt https://t.co/kiquwvWIWe
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) July 6, 2017
Anyway, what Acosta isn’t telling you is that the other reporter called on at the news conference was MSNBC’s Hallie Jackson:
.@HallieJackson: “You THINK it was Russia, your intelligence agencies say it WAS Russia, why won’t you say it was?” https://t.co/uUyeTu9chV
— NBC News (@NBCNews) July 6, 2017
Trump, later on, bashed NBC News:
"NBC is equally as bad, despite the fact that I made them a fortune with The Apprentice." https://t.co/E2mfj700Bm
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 6, 2017
Acosta might be mad that Trump won’t call on him, but he can’t say that the president is ignoring outlets who he’s been critical of.
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