At a White House press briefing on Monday, Today News Africa chief White House correspondent Simon Ateba confronted press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre for “making a mockery of the First Amendment” by not taking his questions for several months.
“This is not China. This is not Russia. What you are doing, you’re making a mockery of the First Amendment,” Ateba said. “It’s been seven months you’ve not called on me. I’m saying that’s not right.”
Ateba told Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Monday night that Jean-Pierre “doesn’t even need to like my accent, doesn’t even need to like what I look like” or “where I come from. They look down on me. They don’t respect the First Amendment.”
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