Student Tells Jim Acosta She Was Dumped Over Tough Questions on Trump Policies: ‘Demanded I Apologize’

Tommy Christopher Oct 17th, 2025, 2:50 pm

A student journalist told podcast host and independent journalist Jim Acosta that she was dumped from her school’s TV station after she refused to apologize for asking tough questions about President Donald Trump’s policies.

Acosta hosted a live Town Hall event on Thursday night’s edition of The Jim Acosta Show at the University of Virginia, during which he introduced a now-former WUVA reporter named Sophia Bangura .

Just days earlier, WUVA held a Q&A with UVA Interim President Paul Mahoney on Trump’s “University Compact” and other issues that Sophia said got her dismissed by WUVA President Conwell Morris :

SOPHIA BANGU

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