(11-16-2018, 03:58 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(11-16-2018, 02:38 PM)jj82284 Wrote: He did call on someone else.  Acosta wouldn't pass the Mic.  The intern went to get the Mike and at the least Acosta acted like a jerk.  You don't treat young women like that especially those just trying to do their job.  

I respect Trump for roasting him and hope he keeps on roasting him.  

As for Trump appointed, republican appointees have a long history of turncoatery.

Yes, early on, he did call on someone else, and Jim did refuse to yield the floor but that was far from the end of it.
Initially, Jim was in the wrong for failing to hand over the microphone and let someone else from the press speak, but that kind of thing has happened at other events with other Presidents and other leaders.  All the leader has to do is refuse to answer and insist on moving on.  But only a couple of seconds later, the President was at fault for continuing to insult Jim and his employer even though supposedly he wanted to move on to someone else's question.  None of this would have made the news, and none of us would be debating whether Acosta put his hands on the intern, if the President had simply stopped talking about Jim and CNN and answered the next question.
None of the assembled press were there to find out the President's opinion of Jim or of CNN.
The President wanted the next news cycle to be about how much he hates CNN.