The man who handed Acosta the mike weighs in on the controversy

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https://www.playboy.com/read/worry-not-jim-i-ll-never-stop-asking-the-president-questions

Don't Worry, Mr. President: Reporters Will Never Stop Asking Questions

Written by Brian Karem
Published on November 12, 2018

Wednesday, November 7, 2018: A day that will live in infamy, when the president of the United States declared war on the American people. In one question, in a rare televised news conference from the White House East Room, President Donald Trump let the world know what’s in store for the United States for the next two years.
With the House of Representatives secured in the midterm elections by the Democrats, Trump said he could work with them on several issues, but not if they investigate him. He said he would then use the U.S. Senate to investigate the Democrats. Since the Democrats will use their newfound status in the House to oversee the executive branch, a role the Republicans have abandoned since 2016, it sounded like Trump is offering the Democrats a “my way or the highway” scenario.

I asked him, should the Democrats begin investigating him, “Can you compartmentalize that and still continue to work with them for the benefit of the rest of the country? Or are you—"“No,” Trump said.

“Are all bets off?” I asked.

“No. If they do that, then it’s a warlike posture.”

He refused more questions from me and, as he called on Jim Acosta from CNN, I demurred. It isn’t about me. “Since it’s Jim...” I said, handing over the microphone to Jim.

What happened next amounted to the first shots fired in the president’s warlike posture. Acosta tried to ask him a question about the caravans of immigrants, but Trump would have none of it. “Here we go,” the president said as he looked to his left and smiled at Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. She returned the grin. Trump paced the stage as Acosta spoke to him, looking much like he did during his debate with Hillary Clinton. At one point, it looked like there was a 50-50 chance he and Acosta would engage in fisticuffs. Then a young intern I’ve seen on only one other occasion in the White House tried to take the microphone from Acosta.

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1. How Is It That Mr. Karem Doesn't Know She Is A Deputy Press Secretary

and not an intern?