“You are a taxpayer-funded spokesman of the United States government; can you at least give us an explanation as to why the cameras are off?”
That was the question from CNN White House reporter Jim Acosta on Monday, at yet another off-camera press briefing held by White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer.
Spicer, unsurprisingly, didn’t really have an answer.
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