President Donald Trump disputed claims that the video that White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders shared of an incident with CNN’s Jim Acosta was doctored, saying it was just a “closeup.”
He also said he didn’t hold the incident against Acosta because it “wasn’t overly, you know, horrible.”
During a press conference at the White House on Wednesday, Trump gave Acosta a verbal lashing for his persistent questioning about the migrant “caravan.” The White House later stripped Acosta’s press pass. Sanders claimed that Acosta put his hands on a White House intern who was trying to take the microphone from and he pulled away.
Footage of the event shows a minor touch. Sanders released a video to justify her claims that appeared to have been doctored by Infowars.
Trump: Acosta video was not doctored pic.twitter.com/sbrLEjZuxc
— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) November 9, 2018
It’s straight up gaslighting, and they’re doing it on purpose. It’s basically a test to see whether people will swallow it. I’m glad there’s been official statements protesting it, but ultimately it’s pretty weak, and will just go into the pile of all the lying and outrageous behavior that somehow for the most part we accept these days.
I think that Sanders does a lot of this, but Trump coming out like this has the sign that Sanders was out on her own. She took action trying to look strong in Trump’s eyes, and she is so fucking dumb that she looked at/used an Infowars video. The level of just plain idiocy on the part of the Trumpsters is not to be underrated, you see it in tin-pot 3rd world regimes filled with yes men.
The only difference is that Trump really, really cares about bad press. When he looks crazy he does not care, he likes that and see it as strong, but when he looks foolish and stupid the hates that. This is why Pruit went away, and why Zinkie will be gone, they make Trump look bad. In his eyes its the “incompetent” people around him that are why people don’t like him.
Sanders is one of the few people he still trusts/likes, but at some level he knows she fucked up, otherwise this is not something he would tweet, but he had been watching CNN and Morning Joe again…
As I keep saying, the only way to reach trump is to make fun of him, and if you want to get rid of someone, show on Morning Joe or CNN that they are making him look like a fool.
E.g. you can bet that the loon Temp AG does not last long, he is being made fun of, and people Trump respects are saying he should not be in the job.
lol, MORNING JOE is showing the ;hot tub’ commercial WHITTAKER made…imagine, a hot-tub salesman for the ATTY.GEN. of the USA……….
If it was not perminently damaging the United States, you would almost have to laugh at the incompetence of these fools. “extreme vetting” is not a phrase that applies in any way to anyone close to or appointed by Trump. Most administrations appoint a few duds, but this entire bunch are duds, crooks, and low grade grifters.
Whitaker is a clown, and the media is going to tear him apart. Trump did this impulsively, and he is going to pay a price for it.