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Ouch: Trump Humiliates Obnoxious CNN Reporter After Oval Office Outburst

https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2026/08/17/trump-torches-reporter-for-obnoxious-behavior-in-oval-office-n2205713

It seems that some "journalists" in the White House press corps need to be reminded that access to the president is a privilege, not a right. And with that privilege comes the responsibility to behave professionally and with decorum.
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Unfortunately for one CNN reporter, her behavior didn't meet President Trump's standards and he let her know it.

The president was hosting hero teen lifeguard Ryder Williams and the boy he saved from rough surf last month in Seabright Beach in Santa Cruz, California. Video of Williams rescuing the drowning boy made headlines across the globe, earning him a trip to the White House. And he got to sit in the fireside chair that is usually reserved for dignitaries and kings.
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This is where CNN's Kristen Holmes, presumably sitting in for the dour-faced Kaitlan Collins, disgraced herself with an absurd question about the president preferring to travel with his aide Natalie Harp than to build the White House ballroom. She was repeating almost verbatim the dreck spouted by Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) in a recent speech.

To his credit, the president responded calmly, saying they were making much-needed changes to the White House after years of neglect. If Holmes was expecting to provoke an outburst, she was sorely disappointed.

However, to her everlasting discredit, Holmes proceeded to scream like a maniac over the other press members trying to get in a question. Her obnoxious behavior in front of the lifeguard and the boy he rescued prompted the president to completely and brutally shut her down with a few cutting remarks.

CNN's Dem-shill "reporter" was obediently trying to troll their evidence-less insinuation that Trump is having an affair with Natalie Harp. She's worked with Trump, effectively, for two years, so of course Dem-shill MSM parrots hate her and feel she's made herself deserving to be a smear target.

Malaprop creation is the special skill of many DU members.

I'm going to guess that the justification form is double-edged lawsuit-resistance CYA for the dude's employer. If the accommodation is denied, the form hinders an ADA lawsuit; if the accommodation is granted, the form hinders a discrimination lawsuit from coworkers who did not merit or need a similar accommodation. I.E., the greed is lawyer-victimology-greed, not corporate greed

There's no off-season for lawyers. Booming economy or down-turn doesn't matter. It's almost like they made the rules up just for themselves.

Would that be "mortar" terror of Marshall law?

  Malaprop creation is the special skill of many DU members.

I'm going to guess that the justification form is double-edged lawsuit-resistance CYA for the dude's employer. If the accommodation is denied, the form hinders an ADA lawsuit; if the accommodation is granted, the form hinders a discrimination lawsuit from coworkers who did not merit or need a similar accommodation. I.E., the greed is lawyer-victimology-greed, not corporate greed

COLEMAN HUGHES: Why the Left Needed to Believe in Jason Arday.

https://instapundit.com/817331/

The Jason Arday scandal has left the academic world reeling. Found dead in his family’s apartment last Friday, Arday has been the subject of intense scrutiny over the past month. Appointed in 2023 as Cambridge University’s youngest-ever black professor, he faced extensive and credible allegations of plagiarism that exploded into public view last month. Those allegations led to public interest in the (literally) incredible details of his life. Arday claimed to have run 600 miles in six days—which would make him one of the best ultra-marathon runners on Earth. He claimed that he couldn’t speak until the age of 11 and couldn’t read until 18, but somehow managed to complete a PhD around 30. And he claimed to have raised the equivalent of several million U.S. dollars for charity.

Jason Arday was either the most interesting man in the world, or he was a liar. It turned out to be the latter.

All this has revealed many unflattering things about academia: DEI invites fraud by lowering standards, the bigotry of low expectations is alive and well, and a disturbing number of “experts”—not just Arday but all the Cambridge professors and BBC journalists who co-signed him—are compromised by ideology, cowardice, or both.

But the Arday scandal has also revealed something else: White liberals in the English-speaking world want to believe in the archetype of the up-from-nothing black intellectual who, despite huge disadvantages, goes on to achieve greatness. In fact, they want to believe in this sort of story so badly that they are willing to turn off every ounce of skepticism that they would normally bring to bear on fantastical claims.

The irony, however, is that we already have many examples of up-from-nothing black intellectuals who go on to greatness. It’s just that they usually turn out to be conservatives—or if not conservatives, then at least out-of-step with the left-wing religion of racial justice.

My emphasis; the full Free Press article is behind a paywall. WRT the emphasized paragraph, Thomas Sowell and Ben Carson come to mind.

As a side note, the claim to have run 600 miles in six days is patently absurd. I'm weird/unusual enough to be acquainted with a couple of runners who have done 100-, 135-, and 200-mile events. They prep for it- training and arranging course support crew - for months, and, more to the point, recover from successfully completing such an event for weeks.

If Arday's death can be, accurately, attributed to more than his own fabulism and the exposure thereof, the contributing factor would be the pressure to perform/conform to what he was not but leftists and Progs set him up to be.