A federal judge heard nearly 2 hours of arguments about whether to restore the press pass taken from a Playboy White House reporter after an altercation with former White House aide Sebastian Gorka last month
An attorney for Karem, Ted Boutrous, said the decision to suspend Karem’s pass is part of a broader campaign by Trump to delegitimize the press.
But Contreras noted there are multiple videos of the showdown from various angles. “This has to be the most well documented disputed event that I’ve ever seen,” the judge said. “Even bank robbery videos are not that clear.” “It’s clear that the White House got better lawyers between the Acosta [case] and this one. They put together a much better record,” the judge said.Sign Up
Boutrous appeared to gesture with his hands as if pulling someone’s pants up and said the White House could intervene in the moment, but couldn’t punish the violator going forward without formal standards and a process involving a decision by someone more neutral than the White House press secretary.
At one point, Boutrous insisted that Karem had tried to deal with a difficult situation “as best he could.”
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