President Donald Trump made a degree of not calling on NCS’s Kristen Holmes at his press convention following the U.S. Supreme Court’s rejection of his administration’s imposition of sweeping tariffs underneath the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
During the presser, Trump railed in opposition to Justices Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett, and Chief Justice John Roberts as “fools and lapdogs” for declaring his tariffs — which he touted final April as a “liberation” for the American economy — unlawful.
When it got here time for questions, Trump wagged his finger at Holmes, saying, “No, No…I’m not talking to you. I’m talking to — I don’t talk, I don’t talk to NCS. It’s fake news!” earlier than telling one other reporter, “Go ahead.”
Earlier within the day, Holmes reported that Trump turned “enraged” when he realized in regards to the Supreme Court choice throughout his annual White House breakfast with the nation’s governors.
From exterior the White House, Holmes mentioned, “We have learned more about what happened in the room when President Trump was with those governors and he learned of the Supreme Court decision. Apparently, the breakfast had been going well. They were working together. And then President Trump became enraged. He started ranting about the decision, not only calling it a disgrace, but started attacking the courts at one point saying, ‘These effing courts,’ but using the actual language there.”
About an hour later, Fox News’s Jacqui Heinrich disputed Holmes’s report in a tweet, writing, “According to a supply OUTSIDE THE ADMINISTRATION on POTUS response to tariff ruling throughout governors breakfast: ‘an aide came in, handed him a note, he called it a disgrace and then he went on with the remarks.’”
Heinrich added that her reporting “contradicts NCS reporting about an expletive-laden rant.”
White House Communications Director Steven Cheung retweeted Heinrich, writing, “NCS is fake news.”
Watch the clip above via NCS.
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