CNN chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta railed against reality TV star Kim Kardashian over her Oval Office meeting with President Trump on Wednesday regarding prison reform.
“Forget about the fact that Kim Kardashian is here at the White House today, and what planet that is anything resembling normal, because it’s not,” Acosta said during a panel on CNN.
“She shouldn’t be here talking prison reform, it’s very nice that she is here, but that’s not a serious thing to have happen here at the White House,” he added.
Acosta’s comments followed a tense press briefing in which White House press secretary Sarah Sanders claimed the media’s response to actress Roseanne Barr’s controversial tweet about former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett demonstrates the media’s “double standard.”
“Really [Kardashian’s visit] pales in comparison, that level of seriousness pales in comparison to what the president does when he weighs in on the Roseanne Barr tweet, fails to condemn the racism at the heart of her remarks, and then having the White House press secretary coming out here and shaming the media and blaming us for making all sorts of comments that need apologies when they themselves owe the American people plenty of apologies for things that the president has said over the years,” he continued.
Kardashian, a Democrat and former Hillary Clinton supporter, is expected to meet with Trump as part of her campaign to secure a pardon for a 62-year-old woman serving a life sentence without parole for a nonviolent drug offense.
Kardashian has spoken with Trump’s son-in-law and White House adviser Jared Kushner over the past several months about the possibility of a presidential pardon for Alice Marie Johnson, as Kushner is spearheading White House policy related to prison reform.
Johnson has been in a federal prison since October 1996 for her role in a drug trafficking case.
