WHITE HOUSE SUSPENDS ACCESS FOR CNN REPORTER JIM ACOSTA

The White House suspended the press credentials of CNN reporter Jim Acosta on Wednesday, hours after Acosta tangled with President Donald Trump during a televised news conference. The move to punish Acosta by removing his access to the White House is believed to be unprecedented.

During the 90-minute news conference, Trump snapped at Acosta after he asked why the president had called the Central American migrant caravan “an invasion” and “demonized immigrants.” Following a lengthy and tense verbal backand-forth, in which Trump at one point started to stray from his lectern and he called Acosta “a rude, terrible person,” a female White House intern tried to take the microphone from Acosta.

Acosta held onto it, and raised his arm to stop the aide from taking it, in the process making contact with her.