watch the video in post 9.
As I said, I don’t think that he hit her intentionally.
However, he DID hit her, even if not too hard. Since she is a federal employee, he is technically guilty (after proper adjudication, of course) of assaulting a federal employee. He should be thankful that he was only banned from the WH pressers.
Also, as I said, I cannot stand Acosta. He soundly deserved to get his credentials removed even without this incident - he CONSTANTLY interrupts the President, which until Trump won the office was strictly verboten. As the President said many times yesterday, “ENOUGH!”