CNN’s Acosta back on White House beat
Correspondent’s credentials restored after judge’s ruling
CNN reporter Jim Acosta returned to the White House yesterday, hours after a court ordered President Donald Trump to temporarily restore a press pass his administration had revoked.
Trump said shortly afterward he will impose new rules governing reporters’ conduct at news conferences as the president’s feud with the media escalates.
“People have to behave,” Trump said. “We’re writing up rules and regulations” to assure “decorum.”
If a reporter doesn’t follow the new rules, Trump said, “we will end up back in court and we will win.”
US District Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump appointee, ordered the White House to temporarily restore Acosta’s press pass while the court studies a challenge to the White House’s decision to take it away.
The CNN reporter’s press credentials were revoked late on November 7 following a contentious presidential press conference, a day after Democrats won control of the House of Representatives in the midterm elections.
The court ruling and Acosta’s return to broadcasting from the White House grounds is a rebuke to Trump as the president tries to recover from losses in midterm congressional elections.