A Tale of Two Tapes

Jackson O'Malley, Writer

An invisible slap fight between Jim Acosta (a CNN contributor) and a female White House intern resulted in Acosta’s press pass being revoked.  The conflict heated to such an explosive level that CNN filed a lawsuit stating that President Trump and his administration have violated Acosta and CNN’s First and Fifth amendment rights.  This all spawned due to Acosta refusing to give up the microphone to another reporter during a press conference. When a white house intern came to take the microphone Acosta struggled with the intern and was accused of karate chopping the innocent intern.

 

Two videos have been released of the encounter.  One put out by C-Span that indicated that yes, there was a struggle, but no, he did not slap or chop the intern.  Another video put out by Infowars and subsequently tweeted by Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, shows that the alleged karate chop did indeed take place.

 

CNN claims that Trump is just biased against CNN (Kettle, Meet Pot).  President Trump is of the notion that Acosta assaulted the Intern. So as any logical person would CNN sued.  The judge eventually sided with CNN and ordered the Trump administration to return the pass and now the white house will create “Rules and regulations” for the press room.  Those new rules have not been drafted nor put in place yet, so we’ll have to wait and see what comes of this in the long run.

You can watch the video of what happened below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NxYxibGCx0