How brainwashed are we? Did you see CNN reporter 'lay hands' on Trump staffer?

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I didn't. All I saw was Mr Toddler having a ranty deranged tantrum whilst reporter tried to do his job by asking the Toddler a question. How about you?

No hands... he just wouldn't hand over the mic, I thought!

The Trump boy is so obsessed with 'fake news' that he makes it up himself.
I hope the press corps takes a stand on this and declines all future press conferences until the guy is reinstated.

I automatically believe the exact opposite of whatever that evil/obnoxious mouthpiece of Trump says - Kellyanne Conway - even her name makes me shudder...

Bizarre anyhow. I thought Trump was all for men people "laying hand's on" assaulting women. Besides which, the guy says he didnt do it and that's the standard of proof required by the White House apparently.

He definitely did not. But if you go to The_Donald on Reddit they have slowed it down so it looks like he's karate chopping her. Jim Acosta is very combative (as is the White House) so they've been dying for a chance like this to revoke his press pass. Freaking banana republic.

She put her hands on him trying to grab the mic. There's no way to spin it to put that reporter at fault. So sick of being gaslighted by this administration.

Also all the MAGA trolls are saying, I thought we should automatically believe women?! Forgeting this isn't a he said/she said, there is a video of it!

Does the zero tolerance of laying hands on interns apply to anyone in the White House? Constitutionally that could be difficult for him.

I watched that and was It shouldn't have surprised me but it still did.
Sadly I don't think the press corps will take action, I hope they will but I really doubt it.

And ofcourse the orange one and his sidekick lie, that is what they do.

Donald Trump, Victim-in-chief

It’s always the bullies who can’t tolerate the slightest bit of criticism.

And whilst he's making up stories twelve people have been shot in California.

I guess he'll blame the victims for not arming themselves while they went line dancing.

We're all going to pay a terrible price for allowing this loon to masquerade as a suitable president of USA. Obfuscation, denials and lies, straight out of the Goebbels handbook of propaganda. America needs to wake up and realise what its got. And journalists will have to inform that in spite of Toddler and regard for his office; it wont take long before he wants to lock them up.

It was shocking if a POTUS can’t handle a press conference how will he handle a real crisis? The reporter didn’t ‘lay hands on her’ he just didn’t had the microphone over. WH can’t manage a press conference. Could you see Obama reacting like that?

I bloody miss Obama...

This is the administration that will be negotiating the trade deal with the UK after Brexit.
Be very afraid...

Ha! If they bother. Tiny market, they'll want an arm and a leg just for starters. God help us. It'll be a paradise . . .

I watched it again this morning and showed ds2 (15)

I thought it was funny, but its not funny if they are now making up lies about the jounalist

Trump lies allllllll the time, dreadful excuse for a human being

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I saw this in waterstones today

Quizzly

My Stupid fat fingers

Can someone link to a video? I can't find anything. Went onto the Donald but there are millions of posts on there!

The video shared by Trump's press secretary appears to have been altered (by slowing down/speeding up) to make it look like the reporter did some sort of arm chop. I would say that sharing a doctored video to try and besmirch someone's reputation would be a major problem for a politician but I somehow suspect not in this case.

Here you go.

There's a video clip on the Guardian on-line. I watched it live. The WH employee reached across to try to take the mic from Acosta's hand and he turned aside. No 'laying of hands' on her at all.

Trump was kicking off because he didn't want to answer a question about the caravan and the racist video, 'approved by Donald J. Trump'. Now everyone is talking about this, instead of him refusing to answer the question. Pure distraction. As always.

Sacking Sessions is far more serious, with what it might do to the Mueller investigation. Things are about to get v nasty, and those spineless Republican senators will do eff-all.

Is it possible that Sessions will turn into an own goal and cause voters to turn on him? No probably not. Its so OBVIOUS. What is wrong with people? Why is it acceptable? Maybe the US political system has always been far more corrupt than we're led to believe and they've just stopped pretending.

If they bother. Tiny market, they'll want an arm and a leg just for starters. God help us.

The starters will be for us to take their chemically treated pork and chicken, and hormone raised beef.