Last updated on January 12th, 2019 at 01:41 pm
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders mocked Jim Acosta for his tweet along the border, but her mocking quickly backfired on the entire White House.
Acosta tweeted:
I found some steel slats down on the border. But I don’t see anything resembling a national emergency situation.. at least not in the McAllen TX area of the border where Trump will be today. pic.twitter.com/KRoLdszLUu
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— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) January 10, 2019
Sanders responded:
When I went with President @realDonaldTrump to the border today I never imagined @Acosta would be there doing our job for us and so clearly explaining why WALLS WORK. Thanks Jim! https://t.co/7wC4rdEsZ2
— Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) January 10, 2019
But Acosta had more, much more:
While I’m glad she didn’t doctor this video, unfortunately @PressSec is twisting the truth again. As we have been reporting today there are other sections of the border that don’t have walls or slats. Yet, the residents here feel safe. https://t.co/ueGbuldSBb
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) January 10, 2019
The doctored video dig was a reference to how the White House doctored video as justification for taking away Acosta’s White House press pass, but just for good measure, Acosta drove the point home hard:
Last video of the day. Found a beautiful spot on the Rio Grande where there is no wall. No fence. Just the river. Oh and there’s shuffleboard. pic.twitter.com/AGJioY7Bge
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) January 11, 2019
Sarah Sanders now has all the time in the world to troll Twitter, since she no longer does her job and holds press briefings, but if the White House is going to fight with a journalist in front of the entire world, they should not get owned and end up looking like total tools. It is rumored that Sanders is still in the White House because she can’t get another job, and all this backfired troll job on Acosta did is prove why she is unemployable.
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