Video footage filmed at the Rose Garden at the White House shows a political journalist threatening guests of President Donald Trump before one of the guests approaches him.
The footage was filmed and posted by Jim Hanson, president of the Security Studies Group.
Hanson was in the Rose Garden for Trump’s announcement on citizenship and filmed the beginning of the exchange.
Brian Karem told the White House guests: “This is a group of people who are eager for demonic possession.”
After the #SocialMediaSummit @realDonaldTrump invited the conservative influencers to the Rose Garden for his press conf
We got the nice seats & I guess “journalist” @BrianKarem was sad
He tried to pick a fight w/ @SebGorka & then thought betterMy $$$ was on Seb as I note pic.twitter.com/yXfJfOKaZT
— Jim Hanson (@Uncle_Jimbo) July 11, 2019
In response, Sebastian Gorka, a former White House aide, shouts: “You are a journalist, right?”
Karem responds by beckoning Gorka over, saying: “Come on over here and talk to me, brother.”
“We can go outside and have a long conversation,” he threatened.
Gorka was then seen approaching Karem, known for his biased reporting, and shouting: “You’re a punk, not a journalist!”
That was a wild one ????White House Repoeter @BrianKarem said the crowd in attendance for the President’s announcement was “prone to demonic possession.” @SebGorka was having none of it – wow.
Pay Per View pic.twitter.com/tMpzF5bJFc
— Benny (@bennyjohnson) July 11, 2019
The crowd chanted for Gorka as he confronted Karem before the former White House aide turned and walked away and Karem shouted “go home” and “get a job.”
One person from the crowd tells Karem, “Just for the record, he’d kick your punk [expletive].”
The exchange was also captured in part by Katie Rogers, a reporter for the openly anti-Trump New York Times, and Benny Johnson, a former reporter for the conservative Daily Caller website and current TPUSA COO.
Project Veritas head James O’Keefe was also seen telling Karem, “I’m on the same team as you. We’re both journalists. We’re both investigative reporters. All I ask is, do your job.”
Wanted to get the part where a guest at a White House function begins walking toward the press and James O’Keefe is filming and Joy Villa is showing off her FREEDOM gown. pic.twitter.com/ZPIXRRVo6K
— Katie Rogers (@katierogers) July 11, 2019
Karem was then confronted by Joy Villa, who told the reporters that those in the crowd were citizen journalists and that the media should stop reporting “fake news,” reported the conservative Breitbart website.
Karem told Villa he was a “legitimate” journalist and said she was not one.
“When you have a staff of people that verify your facts, then you can call yourself a reporter,” he said. “You have an opinion. Label yourself as an opinion.”
“You should label yourself as an opinion,” Villa responded.
“I do. And when I write a feature it’s labeled ‘news,’” Karem claimed.
Nothing like getting a member of the FAKENEWS challenge you to a fight when you’re both standing in the Rose Garden of the @WhiteHouse.
These people are not journalists.
They’re punks and political saboteurs.
FYI: @Uncle_Jimbo has the WHOLE thing on video. pic.twitter.com/GILlRt0Suj
— Sebastian Gorka DrG (@SebGorka) July 11, 2019
Gorka later took to Twitter to write, “Nothing like getting a member of the FAKENEWS challenge you to a fight when you’re both standing in the Rose Garden of the @WhiteHouse. These people are not journalists. They’re punks and political saboteurs.”
Trump invited a number of conservative influencers and others who have spoken out about censorship on social media to the White House on July 11 for a social media summit.
Gorka and Johnson were among those attending.
Many of the attendees went to the Rose Garden for Trump’s announcement on the citizenship issue.
Playboy, Karem’s employer, has not responded to the conduct of its employee as of July 12.
