CNN’s Acosta Rips White House ‘Stonewalling’ After Off-Camera Gaggle: Spicer ‘Kind of Useless’ Now
CNN’s Jim Acosta continued to go off on White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer today after today’s off-camera, no-audio gaggle, which he earlier made clear on Twitter frustrated him:
The Spicer off-camera/no audio gaggle has begun. I can't show you a pic of Sean. So here is a look at some new socks I bought over the wknd pic.twitter.com/wO9erspwYa
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) June 19, 2017
Make no mistake about what we are all witnessing. This is a WH that is stonewalling the news media. Hiding behind no camera/no audio gaggles
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) June 19, 2017
There is a suppression of information going on at this WH that would not be tolerated at a city council mtg or press conf with a state gov.
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) June 19, 2017
Call me old fashioned but I think the White House of the United States of America should have the backbone to answer questions on camera.
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) June 19, 2017
He reiterated those same points later to Brooke Baldwin, saying that this isn’t about the press being “crybabies” but about the American people being able to see these answers on camera.
Acosta even went on to take this shot at Spicer, in the context of him not giving a more direct answer on whether there are White House “tapes” or on whether the president believes in climate change or not:
“The White House press secretary is getting to a point, Brooke, where he’s just kind of useless. You know, if he can’t come out and answer the questions and they’re just not going to do this on-camera or audio, why are we even having these briefings or these gaggles in the first place?”
Watch above, via CNN.
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