Posted on 12/27/2018 10:48:04 AM PST by Kaslin
Everyone's favorite reporter, CNN White House Correspondent Jim Acosta, filled in for Wolf Blitzer on Wednesday. During the program, Acosta went into detail about why he thought President Donald Trump violated ethics and campaign laws during his trip to Iraq to visit American troops.
Troops lined up to meet the president and some of them had Make America Great Again hats and flags, which the president signed for them.
#maga hat contingent at Ramstein waiting for President Trump pic.twitter.com/18wdP87vZK— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) December 27, 2018
Trump flag (she dropped it after she saw me taking a photo) pic.twitter.com/LhPwUNdEK3— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) December 27, 2018
Trump signing MAGA hats for the troops in Iraq pic.twitter.com/bDUIk94jpR— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) December 26, 2018
And now, CNN has an issue with it, as evidenced by their constant coverage and the remarks made by their reporters and contributors.
“It is, in fact, a campaign slogan, that is a campaign item, and it’s completely inappropriate for the troops to do this,” former Obama administration official and retired Rear Admiral John Kirby said. “Not supposed to do this. And I’m sure their boss is seeing that. They’re not going to be happy about it.”
Some are even accusing Trump of bringing campaign gear to the meeting, which was evident by Acosta's baiting question.
“Is that unusual, to see the President doing that on base? Does this run the risk of the President, you know, facing some accusations that he's turning some of this into a campaign stop? What do you think,” Acosta asked CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr.
“The pool reporters traveling said that the troops brought the hats with them, including one hat that said ‘Trump 2020. We will have to see if that actually proves to be the case. The question is, if they brought them or if the President brought them: What commander allowed that to really happen?” Starr asked. “Troops are not supposed to be involved in political activities. The U.S. military is not a political force.”
Conservatives were quick to note CNN's hatred for Trump:
Get a life: @CNN whines about soldiers in Iraq who had their 'MAGA' hats signed by Trump during surprise visit https://t.co/qWShG9t7Nm pic.twitter.com/BbCO4rDmip— NewsBusters (@newsbusters) December 27, 2018
For real though, crap like @CNN bashing troops for having #MAGA hats in their personal possessions is literally how we got Trump.— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) December 27, 2018
Just when you thought the mainstream media couldn’t sink any lower, they are now criticizing our troops deployed in Iraq for asking President Trump to sign their MAGA hats. How disgusting?! #CNNSucks— Students For Trump (@TrumpStudents) December 27, 2018
And CNN wonders why more than half of America deems them fake news?
Yet nary a peep in over 2 years about Democrat operatives bragging about personal knowledge of illegal collusion between the DNC and Hillary campaign and supposedly independent groups....
Acosta and his CNN buffoons are insane...end of story!!!
Every time he takes a step or utters a word they want to blame him for something. It’s good comedy.
Well then every politician who holds office and has signed autographs has violated ethics and campaign laws.
“Jim Aclaasto Relotius”
So he was campaigning in Iraq. the media are idiots...
Nitwits gone wild! Why doesn’t cnn go to Iraq and seize the President-Trump-signed MAGA hats from the armed troops? I need a laugh.
If I remember correctly, GW was ALWAYS signing stuff for the troops when he visited.
Petty people in the process of becoming even more petty.
The incredible shrinking media. See how small they all look!
Wait'll CNNPC gets a few Blue Star family members into the CNN interrogation chambers at Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse.
CNN is such a pathetic propaganda channel
simply pathetic.
My reading of the comments on Twitter reinforce my commitment to staying away from Twitter.
If the troops were voting for Democrats you can bet your bottom dollar these people would want more political involvement by soldiers.
predicting future CNN ‘news’ stories:
breaking- president trump ate breakfast at 6 am this morning, which is clearly a campaign finance violation because he didn’t personally pay for the cereal out of his own pocket-
Also, in other news, president trump may have violated the hatch act by eating eggs that weren’t hatched yet-
further, sources reveal that president trump took 5 deep breaths after a brisk walk- resulting in a violation of the carbon tax law signed by congress earlier this week-
president trump may have saved the life of a drowning victim this week, but the act has many people wondering what his ulterior motive was (Serious Note, there is a report that trump actually did save the life of a drowning disabled woman- https://www.theepochtimes.com/man-claims-donald-trump-saved-his-autistic-daughter-from-drowning-in-1989_2196599.html )
I remember Trump saying something about America should have taken Iraqi’s oil..maybe that’s the real reason he went there?
Clearly he’s campaigning through his annual Thanksgiving and Christmas addresses.
Not to mention this wall business.
In fact, everything Trump has done since he took office can be viewed as just a series of campaign moves to get reelected.
Of course he did. What else could we expect from the msm? If he didn’t go or sign autographs it’d be that he doesn’t care for our military or he’s aloof. Whatever.
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