CNN’s Acosta Regrets the Media Are Not More Hostile to Trump
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ACOSTA: “I wish at times that the press had been a bit more in solidarity with one another. And standing up to this White House and saying listen, president can’t call us the enemy of the people. We won’t go along with that. We missed some opportunities here and there to challenge one thing I’m most grateful for during this experience is how just about every news organization in Washington and here in New York stood behind us here at CNN when they took away my press pass. That was a very important First Amendment case. Had the Trump Administration won that case, Brian, it would have sent shockwaves through our industry. It would have put a real chilling effect on the First Amendment in this country and people might say oh, you’re just puffing yourself up. You’re high on your own fumes. No Trump Administration own lawyers went into the courtroom and said the president of the United States can throw out whoever he wants out of the White House. We couldn’t have a situation like that. I was grateful, our entire industry stood behind us. Had they not, I think could it have worked out a different way.”
