14 August, 2017
"They've been condemned", the President said.
Acosta previously criticized Trump for calling his remarks on Charlottesville a "press conference" despite taking no questions from reporters.
As he walked out, Acosta called out a question about whether the President himself has spread fake news. "We did not. That's fake news", Acosta said.
President Trump and CNN's Jim Acosta traded barbs Monday when the reporter pressed Trump to take questions about his response to the weekend white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va.
Acosta then asked Trump why he wasn't holding a press conference.
Acosta has sparred with Trump and other members of the administration throughout the Trump presidency; Trump once told Acosta he was "very fake news". Not Donald Trump, not Barack Obama, this has been going on for a long, long time. Trump failed to call out the white supremacist groups responsible for the unrest, and his "on many sides" comment was criticized for seeming to equate the hate groups with the anti-fascists and Black Lives Matter counter-protesters. During that speech, he did condemn white supremacists, the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis and "other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans". "He did not respond", Acosta wrote after Trump's earlier statement.
