Trump’s New Solution To Unruly Reporters: Tells Staff To ‘Just Leave’

President Donald Trump said Friday that if reporters echo Jim Acosta’s aggression in the press room, he’s instructed his staff to “just leave any time you want.”

“We always have the option of just leaving. You know?” Trump said in a quick press conference after CNN won their lawsuit against the White House. “If we feel that things aren’t being treated properly, that people aren’t being treated properly, we always have the right to leave…I’ve instructed my people, when they’re not treated properly, you have the right to just leave any time you want.”

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  1. Reporters should be the ones walking out…

  2. “We always have the option of just leaving. You know?” Trump said.

    Yes, please.

    Now!

  3. But the GOP won’t answer some questions. They refuse to be responsible.

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