Days after a federal judge granted CNN’s request to temporarily restore White House reporter Jim Acosta’s press badge, Trump administration officials reportedly sent a letter to the reporter on Monday suggesting his press credentials would be suspended again in two weeks.
This was a fact that top White House adviser Kellyanne Conway only learned on national television during an interview with Fox News.
While praising the White House press corps’ decision to establish “new rules” for reporters to ensure “respect for the president”—as part of U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Kelly request for established rules of conduct for reporters going forward—Fox host Bill Hemmer asked Conway about whether those new guidelines will apply to Acosta, CNN’s chief White House correspondent and recent legal adversary of the president’s.
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“Is that reporter allowed back in the White House?” Hemmer asked. “I was given a note an hour ago the White House made a preliminary decision to suspend the hard pass for Jim Acosta again. Are you fighting this?”
Pausing with both of her eyebrows raised, Conway admitted she hadn’t heard about that decision, one that would revoke Acosta’s hard pass immediately after the court-ordered temporary restraining order expired.
“I’m not aware of anything happening in the last hour,” she said, in a clip first spotted by Raw Story. “I would have to talk to the press shop about that. Obviously it was reinstated. He came here.”
The Fox News host pushed further, questioning the White House counsel on whether Acosta would be allowed back in the White House on Monday—his first full day back since his pass was reinstated.
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