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Full Title: FIREWORKS! TRUMP Squares Off with JIM ACOSTA– “Hand Over the Mic!… You’re a Horrible Person!” (VIDEO) President Donald Trump squared off with CNN White House reporter Jim Acosta during a contentious post-mid term elections press conference Wednesday in the East Room. Acosta argued with Trump over the migrant caravan invasion then fought off a White House staffer trying to take back the White House microphone when Trump told him he was done taking Acosta’s questions.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders lashed out at The Washington Post Sunday, criticizing the outlet for editorially tying President Donald Trump to the events of the past week. “Is there any tragedy the Washington Post won’t exploit to attack President @realDonaldTrump?” she tweeted.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders mocked a possible third presidential run by Hillary Clinton, asking if Christmas is "coming early this year." Her comment came as she retweeted a story quoting a former close Clinton aide floating the possibility. "Christmas coming early this year?" asked Sanders in welcoming a Clinton candidacy in a tweet to her 3.38 million followers. Sanders was retweeting a Daily Caller story that linked to a Politico interview in which former Clinton aide Philippe Reines makes an argument around a viable Clinton candidacy, citing her ability to fundraise and fight as primary factors. “It’s...

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders slammed Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) for her statements about sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. "Now clear why top Democrat on Senate Judiciary Committee did nothing with allegation for months or even ask Judge Kavanaugh about it," Sanders tweeted. "Senator Feinstein just said 'I can't say everything's truthful.'" Feinstein told reporters on Capitol Hill earlier Tuesday that she couldn't say that everything in Christine Blasey Ford's allegations against Kavanaugh was "truthful." Feinstein later clarified her comments to CNN, saying, "Based on what I know at this stage, she [Ford] is...

White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders ripped the anonymous senior White House staffer who wrote an op-ed for the New York Times slamming President Trump’s conduct. “The individual behind this piece has chosen to deceive, rather than support, the duly elected President of the United States,” she said in a statement. “He is not putting country first, but putting himself and his ego ahead of the will of the American people.” This coward should do the right thing and resign,” she added. The statement follows criticism from Trump himself, who called the op-ed’s author “gutless.” The author of the op-ed...

Sarah Huckabee Sanders delivers the White House press briefing for Friday August 24th, 2018. Video Added:

Sarah Sanders FTW!!! click on the pic. Yer head might explode, if yer a "jernalist". That is all.

This is some really funny stuff. I laughed out loud several times, and I seldom do that... most of the time when I post LOL, I've only smiled very weakly..... but posting SVW doesn't have the same cachet.The best part about it is that these entertainers HAVE NOT INJECTED PARTISAN POLITICS into their work. It is refreshing, and allows everyone to enjoy it.SO ENJOY, ALREADY

Veteran White House reporter April Ryan accused White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders of escalating President Trump’s war on the press, suggesting that she “should have to pay” for the press pool’s security detail due to recent threats. “She should be ashamed of herself for going out there, saying some of the things that she’s said,” Ms. Ryan, the White House correspondent for American Urban Radio Networks, told The Hollywood Reporter in an interview published Tuesday. “She tries to insult my intelligence. And not just my intelligence, the world’s intelligence.” Ms. Ryan said the president’s attacks against the media...

Comedian Michelle Wolf's Netflix talk show,"The Break With Michelle Wolf," will not be returning to the streaming service for a second season. Deadline reported on Friday that Wolf's Netflix series had been canceled only about three months after its first episode aired. The show's last episode was released on July 29. Wolf has not yet made a statement about her show's cancellation. The "Daily Show" star gained widespread notoriety earlier this year after giving a speech during the White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) dinner in which she repeatedly slammed White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. "I actually really like...

The White House on Sunday shot back at Omarosa Manigault Newman’s secret recording of her dismissal last year, saying it “proves” her “lack of character and integrity.” “The very idea a staff member would sneak a recording device into the White House Situation Room, shows a blatant disregard for our national security – and then to brag about it on national television further proves the lack of character and integrity of this disgruntled former White House employee,” White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said on Sunday evening.Earlier Sunday Manigault Newman revealed her secret recording of her termination by White House Chief of Staff...

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) on Friday lashed out at CNN reporter Jim Acosta after he had a tense exchange with Huckabee's daughter, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders, the day before. Huckabee targeted Acosta, who has been at the center of a firestorm over President Trump and the press, in a series of tweets after he and Sanders engaged in a heated back-and-forth over the president’s repeated attacks on the press during Thursday's White House press briefing. The former governor referred to the reporter as a “BUG” in one tweet and his daughter as “the WINDSHIELD” and in...

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders shut down CNN's Jim Acosta on Thursday, spurring him to leave the briefing room in a snit. National Security Advisor John Bolton, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, Commander of the United States Cyber Command Paul Nakasone, and FBI Director Christopher Wray joined Sanders to outline the administration's strategy to combat U.S. election interference. Toward the end of the briefing, Acosta pressed Sanders on President Trump's habit of calling the American media "enemies of the people." "I think it would be a good thing if you were to...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government's aggressive prosecution of leaks and efforts to control information are having a chilling effect on journalists and government whistle-blowers, according to a report released Thursday on U.S. press freedoms under the Obama administration. The Committee to Protect Journalists conducted its first examination of U.S. press freedoms amid the Obama administration's unprecedented number of prosecutions of government sources and seizures of journalists' records. Usually the group focuses on advocating for press freedoms abroad. Leonard Downie Jr., a former executive editor of The Washington Post, wrote the 30-page analysis entitled "The Obama Administration and the Press."...

White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders visbly upset some journalists during a briefing on Thursday when she complained about physical dangers she has faced in her job and her unprecedented need for Secret Service protection, and blamed the reporters in the room for causing it. Challenging her directly, one reporter responded: 'Tell that to the five dead journalists in Maryland.' On June 28 a gunman stormed the newsroom at the Annapolis Capital newspaper and shot dead John McNamara, Gerald Fischman, Rob Hiaasen, Wendi Winters and Rebecca Smith. Another journalist at the White House Thursday griped afterward: 'She’s going to get...

Sarah Sanders lowers the boom on Acosta and WH press corps.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders blasted what she called "massive media hysteria" after a redheaded White House staffer in an Oval Office photograph was misidentified as an alleged Russian spy. A reporter for the news outlet Mic tweeted Tuesday that Maria Butina, the women arrested Sunday on charges of conspiracy against the U.S., visited the Oval Office last year during a visit by Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov. "This is Maria Butina – arrested for being a Russian spy – in the Oval Office with Trump," the reporter tweeted, with a photo showing a red-haired young woman in the...

A Richmond, Virginia, bookstore owner said he called the police on Saturday after former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon was confronted in his store. Nick Cooke, owner of Black Swan Books, told The Richmond Times-Dispatch that a woman called Bannon a “piece of trash.” The woman then left the store after Cooke said he called 911. “Steve Bannon was simply standing, looking at books, minding his own business. I asked her to leave, and she wouldn’t. And I said, ‘I’m going to call the police if you don’t,’ and I went to call the police and she left,” Cooke...

The Virginia restaurant that made national headlines after its owner asked White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders to leave reopened on Thursday night after being closed for two weeks due to protests. The Red Hen reopened in Lexington, Va., as dozens of protesters lined up across the street, USA Today reported. "This'll be closed within a year!" one man shouted, according to the newspaper. The restaurant represents a battleground between supporters of the president and those who support the owner's actions, and both protesters and supporters have flocked to The Red Hen in recent days, some hoping for a...

LEXINGTON, Va. (WDBJ7) Hundreds of people, representing several different groups, gathered in Lexington Saturday for demonstrations sparked by the actions of a restaurant owner. Motorcycles roared down East Washington Street as dozens lined the sidewalk, holding signs with sayings like "The Red Hen laid a rotten egg." Nearly everyone who came out for a series of rallies was there to show support for President Trump, after the owner of the Red Hen asked his chief spokesperson to leave the restaurant more than a week ago. "That was the straw that broke the camel's back and set us off and made...