When CNN’s White House correspondent Jim Acosta got snarky with White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders during a press briefing Thursday, no one saw this comeback coming.
Sanders hit Acosta with a comeback so devastating, it made the entire White House press corp gasped out-loud — and video of the verbal bodyslam quickly went viral.
Acosta was grilling Sanders about President Donald Trump’s television viewership habits, and asked if Trump’s tweets that morning were influenced by Fox News’ “Fox and Friends” —
“House votes on controversial FISA ACT today.” This is the act that may have been used, with the help of the discredited and phony Dossier, to so badly surveil and abuse the Trump Campaign by the previous administration and others?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 11, 2018
With that being said, I have personally directed the fix to the unmasking process since taking office and today’s vote is about foreign surveillance of foreign bad guys on foreign land. We need it! Get smart!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 11, 2018
“There have been folks out there who have said, ‘You know there’s a cause and effect, he watches something on Fox and Friends, and then he tweets about it. Is that what happened this morning, and does that go on?” Acosta asked.
Sanders replied: “I’m sure you’re disappointed he’s not watching CNN.
“I think he watches a lot of CNN, if you don’t mind me saying,” he said.
Sanders wasn’t having any of that.
“I don’t think that’s true, or your numbers would be higher,” Sanders shot back, causing everyone in the room to gasp out-loud. Acosta stammered a response about his television numbers, but the damage was done.
You can watch the verbal smack down here —
Ouch!
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