Seems a good place to drop a quote I ran across the other day:
From the author Phillip Roth
“I found much that was alarming being a citizen during the tenures of Richard Nixon and George W Bush. But whatever I may have seen as their limitations of character or intellect, neither was anything as humanly imoroverished as Trump is: ignorant of government, of history, of science, of philosophy, of art, incapable of recognizing subtlety or nuance, destitute of all decency, and wielding a vocabulary of seventy seven words that is better called Jerkish than English.”
And now she is passing along a doctored film clip of the Acosta exchange that she got from Infowars.
The only excuse I would accept from her at this point was that the White House was holding one of her kids hostage.
Show me a real side-by-side. This is just a right-wing idiot showing the same hacked film twice. When you post crap like this, do you actually think nobody would notice the source?
One of my conservative friends texted me during that news conference complaining that the press was being rude. I with-held comment until I could see the interaction for myself, which I did when I got home.
I think Acosta was being a bit aggressive and pushy, and I think he decided this was his moment to die on the hill of truthfulness.
However, Trump was clearly cornered and failed in every way to handle a hard-ball question from an unfriendly reporter. He could have brushed it off, but he chose to keep engaging, and when he saw Acosta was kicking him in the balls with the questions, he stepped away from the podium - as if to run away (like he usually can). The interaction reinforces my belief that Trump is surrounded by a bubble of sycophants and yes-men that will not tolerate any dissension at all. When the questions got tough, he tried to run away, and realized he could not, so stood there and tried to bite back. Trump is the world’s biggest pussy.
The WH uses lies like this to assert dominance and to humiliate. Not because any of them actually think Acosta assaulted the woman (who approached him and tried to pull the mic out of his hand).