CNN’s White House correspondent Jim Acosta stated his belief that conservative news outlets are intentionally targeting his network. Acosta was discussing the tone of Trump’s latest rally in Tampa, Florida, while on “The Situation Room” Wednesday evening.
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“There is just no other way to explain this other than that is an official endorsement from the President of the United States of this kind of behavior that goes on at his rallies, and as we know, Wolf, this goes all the way back to the campaign when the president referred to us as the disgusting news media, the dishonest news media, liars, scum and thieves, and so on,” he stated.
Acosta was discussing his experiences at Trump’s rally in Tampa, Florida for Ron DeSantis, who is currently running for governor. The CNN correspondent was heckled while doing a live broadcast before the president went on stage. (RELATED: Acosta Whines That Trump Rally Crowd Hates Him)
“Wolf, my experience talking to these folks at the rally last night is that much of what they think about what we do is shaped by what they see in the prime time hours of Fox News and by some conservative outlets who are really just out to get us on a daily basis that seems to shape and distort much of what a lot of these folks at these rallies think about all of us,” Acosta concluded.