CNN’s Lawsuit Is a Joke

We’ll get to the CNN lawsuit of the White House. They’re suing a lot of people. CNN is suing Trump and Sarah Sanders and the Secret Service and the young White House employee trying to take the microphone away from Acosta who would not surrender it.

What CNN wants us to believe is that Jim Acosta’s constitutional right to sit in the White House press room and grandstand cannot be denied, that it can’t be taken away no matter what he does. That Jim Acosta has an unalienable right to sit there in the press room and harass Donald Trump, because, after all, the Declaration of Independence says right there: All men are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights including life, liberty, press passes, and the pursuit of happiness. See, right there. Press passes are in the Declaration. That’s what the CNN people think.

And then there’s the First Amendment. You may think you know what the First Amendment is, but let me read it to you: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof or abridging the freedom of Jim Acosta or of the press or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition government for a redress of grievances, including Jim Acosta.

Bottom line is this, Jim Acosta has no constitutional right to be admitted to the White House, period. Jim Acosta has no constitutional right to a White House press pass, period. Jim Acosta has no constitutional right to a White House-issued microphone. And Jim Acosta has no constitutional right to ask the president of the United States questions.

Because, you see, the White House is not prohibiting CNN from being in there. CNN is not being denied access. CNN is not being denied the opportunity to ask questions or harass the president. CNN’s got a reporter in there replacing Acosta. There literally are no grounds. There’s no basis for this. Freedom of the press does not extend to individual — the White House is not required to let anybody who wants in there, in there!

The White House issues press passes. The White House makes sure, and it’s up to them who gets in. Freedom of the press — CNN — Jim Acosta could watch television. He could watch the press briefing on TV and report every bit as much as if he were in the room. Jim Acosta is not being denied access to the president making news in the White House pressroom even if he’s not allowed in there. Jim Acosta could talk to any reporter in the White House pressroom when it’s over and have them tell him what happened in there, but he doesn’t even need to do that.

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