Trump's 2020 Manager Calls for CNN's Jim Acosta to Be Banned

President Donald Trump's 2020 campaign manager on Monday suggested the press credentials for CNN's chief White House correspondent, Jim Acosta, be yanked after he asked Trump questions during the White House Easter Egg Roll.

The startling tweet from Brad Parscale came as three conservation news outlets, The Daily Caller, Red State, and The Right Scoop all blasted Acosta for yelling out questions about illegal immigrants protected by the Obama-era program, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.

He later justified the call with another tweet.

According to The Hill, Acosta had asked the president, "Should the DACA kids worry?" to which Trump replied: "The Democrats have really let them down. They really let them down. It's a shame. A lot of people have taken advantage of DACA. It's a shame."

Acosta then followed up, asking: "Didn't you kill DACA?" Trump did not reply.

The president, who rescinded DACA last September, tweeted Sunday there would be "no more DACA deal."

Acosta, meanwhile, answered his critic in his own tweet — maintaining he was "just doing my job," which he pointed out "is protected by the First Amendment."

Acosta — and CNN — having been the targets of Trump and White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on previous occasions, including one in which he was unceremoniously tossed out of the Oval Office, and in a Trump tweet that dubbed the journalist as Crazy Jim Acosta of Fake News CNN.

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