The White House has suspended CNN correspondent Jim Acosta of his press credentials following his tense exchange with President Donald Trump during a press conference.
During Wednesday’s press conference at the White House, a combative Trump allowed Acosta, CNN’s chief White House correspondent, to ask his question only to cut him off shortly after and branding the journalist an “enemy of the people.”
A visibly angry Trump called Acosta a “rude, terrible person,” after he refused the president’s orders to sit down and give up the microphone during the conference one day after the US midterm congressional elections.
“CNN must be ashamed of itself having you working for them,” the president told Acosta. “You are a rude terrible person.”
Trump then asked another reporter to speak but Acosta refused to sit down. That prompted a White House aide to try to to pull the microphone from Acosta’s hands but the CNN reporter pushed her away…