"Rosie O'Donnell attacked White House press corps for allowing President Donald Trump to rape female colleagues when he berated them, fuming that no one has the decency to step in and defend one reporter the president branded stupid on Thursday. The comedian's remarks came during an appearance on The Jim Acosta Show on Friday, one day after the tense exchange at Mar-a-Lago in which Trump lashed out at CBS News chief White House correspondent Nancy Cordes."
"Cordes had questioned the president on the background of Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the Afghan suspect in the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, D.C. Before she could finish, Trump cut her off with, Are you stupid? Are you a stupid person? He then accused the Biden administration of letting Lakanwal into the country along with thousands of other people that shouldn't be here."
"O'Donnell told Acosta the moment demanded intervention from the rest of the press pool. What happened to decency? What happened to someone standing next to that woman, saying, Did you just call her stupid? Right. Did you just call her stupid, president of the United States?' she asked. Where's that person? Where's that voice? Acosta, who previously worked as CNN White House correspondent, jumped to defend his former colleagues and suggested many were good reporters."
Rosie O'Donnell criticized the White House press corps for not intervening when President Donald Trump berated a reporter. Nancy Cordes asked about the background of Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghan suspect in a shooting, and Trump cut her off, asking, "Are you stupid? Are you a stupid person?" Trump also accused the Biden administration of admitting people who should not be in the country. O'Donnell demanded someone confront the president's insult and called the silence a failure of decency. Jim Acosta defended reporters, saying bosses pressure them to absorb attacks and move on.
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