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The president pointed to how Kelly presided over a similar case in 2018, when he ruled the White House needs to restore press access to then-CNN correspondent Jim Acosta . “They have drawn a great Judge, for them, a man who ruled in favor of Jim Acosta, who now seems to have disappeared from the Planet,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post. “The Judge’s name is Tim Kelly, and he was, sadly, appointed by ‘TRUMP.’ In other words, almost without question and, as usual, we’ll go for appeal because Fake News people and publications that only write negatively, and who violate our National Security by writing false and defamatory stories with unknown ‘sources,’ shouldn’t be allowed access to the most important Office anywhere in the World.” Trump repeated the grievance in his newest jab at Collins. “The ‘good news’ is that they have a great, for them, and totally disloyal Judge,” Trump wrote.
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