Acosta Says Trump’s ‘Social Media Allies’ Verbally Abused Reporters, Then Video Comes Out

During the White House's Social Media Summit in the Rose Garden on Thursday, CNN contributor Brian Karem and radio host Sebastian Gorka got involved in a tense verbal exchange that included a challenge from Karem to "go outside" and Gorka calling Karem a "punk." But in CNN Chief White House Correspondent Jim Acosta's incomplete summary of events, the blow-up — started by Karem, as video evidence shows — was an example of Trump's "social media allies" "verbally abus[ing] reporters who were try