CNN reporter: Top Trump aide threatened to throw me out [View all]
Source: The Hill
A CNN reporter who was denied a chance to ask a question at President-elect Donald Trump’s press conference said that Trump’s incoming White House press secretary threatened to throw him out if he pressed for another question.
Jim Acosta attempted to ask Trump a question at his first press conference since he was elected president, but the president-elect refused and called the network “fake news.”
“At one point during this news conference, in the interest of full disclosure...after I asked and I guess demanded that we had a question, Sean Spicer, the incoming press secretary did say to me if I were to do that again, I was going to be thrown out of this press conference,” Acosta said during a live broadcast following the press conference.
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"Don't be rude. No, I'm not going to give you a question. You are fake news," Trump responded, before calling on another reporter from Trump-friendly outlet Breitbart.
Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/313792-cnn-reporter-spicer-threatened-to-throw-me-out-of-trump-presser
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