7 Times Trump Clashed With Reporters In Hostile Post-Midterms Press Conference

President Trump held a lengthy and frequently hostile press conference Wednesday at the White House, where he repeatedly belittled individual reporters and cast blame on the media for causing division in the country.

In a roughly 90 minute press conference in the East Room, Trump regularly talked over reporters and cut them off as they sought follow-up questions. He simultaneously voiced a desire for the country to unify following the midterms and blamed the media for existing hostilities.

Here are seven instances where Trump clashed with reporters on Wednesday….

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Here’s What Matt Whitaker Thinks Of Robert Mueller

President Donald Trump fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions Wednesday afternoon and temporarily elevated his chief of staff, Matt Whitaker.

Whitaker will now assume control of oversight of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, Department of Justice spokeswoman Sarah Flores confirmed Wednesday….

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Trump Fires Attorney General Jeff Sessions

Attorney General Jeff Sessions was pushed out Wednesday as the country’s chief law enforcement officer after enduring more than a year of blistering and personal attacks from President Donald Trump over his recusal from the Russia investigation.

Sessions told the president in a one-page letter that he was submitting his resignation “at your request.”

Trump announced in a tweet that he was naming Sessions’ chief of staff Matthew Whitaker, a former United States attorney from Iowa, as acting attorney general….

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Sessions Was Told Wednesday That Trump Wanted Him To Resign

After months of being publicly denigrated by President Trump, Jeff Sessions is finally out at the DOJ…

Just one day after Republicans expanded their majority in the Senate, President Trump revealed in a tweet that Attorney General Jeff Sessions has resigned. Matthew G. Whitaker, Sessions’ chief of staff, will become acting Attorney General until Trump can win a confirmation for Sessions’ replacement from the Senate. Whitaker is expected to be sworn in by end of day Wednesday. Session confirmed that he is resigning at the president’s request….

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Trump Goes Off On Acosta, Who Refused To Hand Mic To Female Staffer

“Just sit down, please. When you report fake news, which CNN does a lot, you are the enemy of the people.”

The tense relationship between CNN’s Jim Acosta and President Donald Trump reached a new level Wednesday in the president’s news conference after the 2018 midterms.

The often combative Acosta refused to give up the microphone after asking the president multiple questions and being told to sit down. A female White House staffer even attempted to pry the microphone away from Acosta, but he held onto it. The action drew Trump’s ire and the president went on a tirade about CNN and Acosta….

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An Agenda For A Divided Congress

As we wake up this morning, America knows it will soon have a divided government – a Republican-controlled Senate and a Democratic-controlled House of Representatives. That new reality naturally conjures up painful thoughts of two more years of fighting rather than fixing, two more years of partisan acrimony, and two more years of gridlock. But none of that has to be the case.

In fact, Congress has operated well in the past when its power was divided between the two major political parties. After all, checks and balances are what the Founders desired….

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10 Observations On The Failed Blue Wave

Democrats essentially won a very technical election last night, fueled by several unique factors giving them the advantage in the House this election cycle. These factors were absent in the Senate races and will likely be absent in many of the 2020 House races as well as in the presidential race. There are potential warning signs for Republicans, but a lot of opportunities if they learn the right lessons.

Let’s delve into the key observations. I will try to elaborate on each point in the coming days….

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What The Midterms Mean

The Most Important Election of our Lifetime™ may be a referendum on Trump, Kavanaugh, #metoo, migrant caravans, or any number of manufactured outrages since the 2016 presidential election. It will not be a referendum on foreign policy, the Federal Reserve, debt, spending entitlements, spying, civil liberties, or anything important with regard to state power.

By any objective measure, the ideological and policy disagreements between the national Democrat and Republican parties are not significant. Both accept the central tenets of domestic and foreign interventionism, both accept the federal government as the chief organizing principle for American society, and both view politics simply as a fight for control of state apparatus….

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Democrats Will Use The Power Of The House To Impeach Trump And Kavanaugh And ‘Vindicate Their View Of Government,’ Says Judge Napolitano

Fox News senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano said if the Democrats flip the House, they’ll use their newfound power to “vindicate their view of government” by going after President Donald Trump and Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

“We know what it means for the president,” Napolitano said of a possible Democratic takeover….

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Adam Schiff Vows To ‘Renew’ Russia Probe If Dems Flip The House

Leaker, liar and ranking member of the House Intel Committee, Adam Schiff (D-CA) said it would be his top priority to renew the Russia probe if the Democrats win the midterms.

If Democrats take control of the House, all of the work Chairman Nunes has done exposing the FISA abuses will be for nothing….

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