Sarah Sanders Faces Off With Jim Acosta During White House Press Briefing

The Heated Exchange

Sanders began by censuring what many conservatives and Trump supporters refer to as ‘fake news;”

“There was nothing more than an individual trying to put their bias into their reporting and something that, frankly, has gotten a little bit out of control. We’ve seen it time and time again over the last couple of weeks. A number of outlets have had to retract and change and re-write and make editor’s notes to a number of different stories, some of them with major impacts, including moving markets. This is a big problem and we think it’s something that should be taken seriously.”

However, Acosta didn’t like this because he quickly rushed to the defense of journalists:

“I would just say, Sarah, that journalists make honest mistakes and that doesn’t make them fake news, but the question that I have —”

Sanders quickly fired back with the following message: