Trump doesn’t owe Jim Acosta or any other reporter an extended back-and-forth

Published November 7, 2018 6:47pm ET



Reporters are entitled to ask anything they like of the president. He’s also entitled to ignore their questions. There’s give and take.

I mean, it’d be nice if the president answered everything asked of him. But he doesn’t owe it to specific reporters to respond to all their questions, especially during crowded press conferences where time is a limited commodity and others have questions.

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