Jim Acosta

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(11-08-2018, 05:27 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: Difference here being the intern would've been Lewandowski. Acosta and the intern had incidental contact almost simultaneously. This is why it's even more of a nothing issue than that was.

Yea, Lewandowski grabbed a reporter who was walking side by side with Trump asking questions and pushed her aside. Certainly not worth pressing charges, but he engaged with her and restrained her.

In this case, the intern is the one trying to engage by reaching at the mic in Acosta's hand multiple times before the incidental contact occurs. Immediately once it occurs, he pulls his hand in to his chest, preventing any further contact and says "excuse me". If someone is moving their arm around and you reach under it to grab at something they're holding, you might accidentally get your arm bumped.

It seems ridiculous that we have to approach this either as "he was the aggressor" or "he is a saint". As you said, Acosta should have yielded to a fellow reporter after his first line of questioning ended, but he was not at fault for any contact that occurred.