The White House’s treatment of the free press has just been getting more and more vile as the weeks go on. Just last week, the Trump administration shocked America by banning Kaitlan Collins, a pool reporter from CNN, from attending a White House event because Trump accused her of asking “disrespectful” questions at an Oval Office photo op. The Trump administration turned it up a notch today when White House aides literally screamed at reporters during another Oval Office photo op.
As reporters shouted questions at the president about the recent developments in his investigations, Trump’s aides jumped into action to protect the president and shut the whole thing down. They specifically targeted CNN’s Jim Acosta, who was trying to ask the President about collusion. In the clip below, which was posted by NBC News, Acosta’s voice can be heard asking Trump questions before an aide shouts over him and tries to make him leave. The aide is heard screaming specifically at Acosta:
Let’s go, make your way out. Let’s go. Move Jim! Let’s go. Keep going Jim. Jim we’re leaving. Come on Jim. Go. We’re done.”
You can watch the disturbing, chaotic footage below as Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte looks on helplessly:
This is just another instance of the Trump administration abusing members of the press and preventing reporters from doing their jobs. After viewing this footage, many have been left wondering why the White House even allows the press at photo ops, if it’s clear that the President doesn’t want to give America any answers? The White House has become complicit in Trump’s assault on the free press, and this footage should follow them after Trump’s time is up.
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