White House Accuses CNN Reporter of Disrespectful Question
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The White House launched a personal attack against a CNN reporter on Monday with a social media post that mentioned her children and accused her of asking a “disgusting and inhumane question”.
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HuffPostCritics have fiercely condemned the White House’s highly personal online attack on a CNN journalist who asked Donald Trump an uncomfortable question.
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Trump tore into CNN’s senior White House correspondent Kristen Holmes during an Oval Office event on Monday, repeatedly telling her to be quiet, calling her “very disrespectful” and “fake news” and “a loud, boisterous person” after she asked him for comment about Sen. Jon Ossoff’s (D-Ga.) remark about his close relationship with aide Natalie Harp.
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The Guardian USTrump also directly criticized Holmes during the Oval Office event, at one point telling her: “Quiet, quiet, quiet. You’re very disrespectful.” After she told him she worked for CNN, he responded: “Fake news, you’re fake news, you’re a loud boisterous person. You’re fake news. Be quiet. Be quiet. You’re a fake reporter and you report fake news.” He talked over her as she tried to ask a question.
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The White House’s “rapid response” social media account posted a clip of the exchange and tagged Holmes, calling her a “disgraceful, humiliating embarrassment to her alleged profession”.
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HuffPostThe White House’s rapid response account on X shared footage of the exchange and first slammed Holmes as “a disgraceful, humiliating embarrassment to her alleged profession,” called her question a “cheap shot” and said: “These scumbags are the lowest of the low.”
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(In the meantime, White House Communications Director Steven Cheung responded to Ossoff’s criticism by calling him a “cuck loser.”)
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The Guardian USEarlier, the White House director of communications also posted a series of insults targeting Ossoff in response to the senator’s speech, writing: “Jon Jackoff has to be the biggest cuck loser in politics.”
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President Donald Trump lashed out CNN’s Kristen Holmes on Monday after she attempted to ask about North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and whether Trump canceled a joint U.S.-South Korea military exercise at his request.
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The Guardian USDonald Trump berated a CNN reporter at a press availability, insisting that she 'be quiet' after she asked about a reduction in US military exercises with South Korea. The CNN correspondent pressed Trump on whether Kim Jong Un had requested a reduction in military activities. When another reporter asked about the extensive accounts of deteriorating living conditions on the USS Abraham Lincoln during its lengthy deployment in the strait of Hormuz, the president dismissed the complaints: ' It was fake news reporting from CNN'
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Concerns about the USS Abraham Lincoln — which has experienced worsening conditions in its nearly nine-month deployment in the Middle East amid Trump’s war in Iran — continue, sparked by reports of food shortages, water contamination and other issues.
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The Guardian USDonald Trump claimed he had third-hand reports that the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln is “beautifully maintained” despite extensive accounts of deteriorating living conditions during its lengthy deployment in the strait of Hormuz.
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At the White House on Monday, Trump berated a CNN reporter at a press availability, insisting that she “be quiet” and describing the reporting as fake news.
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HuffPostTrump again cut her off: “Be quiet. Be quiet. Be quiet. You’re a fake reporter. And you report fake news.”
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01 The Guardian US The network said she had asked Trump a “tough, relevant, and newsworthy question on behalf of the American people”, writing: “Public officials are free to challenge reporting they disagree with, but personal attacks on journalists for asking questions are beneath the office and inconsistent with the principles of a free press.”
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02 New York Times Trump Honors a Teenage Lifeguard and Takes Aim at a CNN Reporter President Trump told a journalist to “be quiet” at a White House event for a California lifeguard and a boy he saved.
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03 HuffPost Then, it got even more personal, writing to the mother-of-two: “Someday, your children will come across your disgusting and inhumane question. They will be sickened and embarrassed to have a parent be so callous and vindictive. It’s quite troubling.”
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