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CNN’s Jim Acosta blasted for ‘trying to hurt Trump and divide’ America with coronavirus report
Fox News ^ | March 13, 2020 | Brian Flood

Posted on 03/13/2020 9:43:20 AM PDT by jazusamo

CNN chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta’s latest report has been labeled “idiotic” and a “‘so what?’ moment” by critics who feel it’s simply the liberal network’s latest attempt to weaponize coronavirus against President Trump.

Acosta’s story headlined, “Source: Trump is concerned about coming into contact with people infected with coronavirus,” cited a single source “close to” the president who said Trump is uneasy after coming into contact with a Brazilian official who tested positive for coronavirus.

“This is the most idiotic thing I've seen all week. And this week that's saying something,” Media Research Center vice president Dan Gainor told Fox News. “Of course, ‘Trump is concerned about coming into contact with people infected with coronavirus.’ We all are. And we're all supposed to be. That's how you stop a virus, by being concerned about who you interact with and taking precautions.”

The O Estado de S. Paulo newspaper reported Thursday that Fabio Wajngarten, who met with President Trump in Mar-A-Lago on Saturday, tested positive for the virus early Wednesday. Health officials confirmed the diagnosis. On Friday, Fox News confirmed that Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil's president who also met with Trump on Saturday, also tested positive.

Trump has downplayed the incident publicly, telling reporters that he isn’t concerned and attempting to keep panic and hysteria to a minimum. But the 73-year-old president who is a known germaphobe may have told someone close to him that he’s actually a tad apprehensive, according to Acosta.

"He is very concerned about all the people he met who have it, including the Brazilian," an anonymous source told the CNN reporter.

The anonymous source didn’t mention whether or not Trump is concerned for himself, or for the people exposed, only that he was concerned in general.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: acosta; clintonnonnews; cnn; coronavirus; jimacosta; littlejimmy; lyingacosta; presidenttrump; trump
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Little jimmy is obsessed with President Trump, if CNN had one ounce of decency left they'd fire him.
1 posted on 03/13/2020 9:43:20 AM PDT by jazusamo
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To: jazusamo
Again with the "sources" "close to the President"?

Look, Jim. Those press releases you get from the DNC are not "sources" nor are they "close to the President".

2 posted on 03/13/2020 9:45:27 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: jazusamo
.. if CNN had one ounce of decency left they'd  explode all their facilities and spend the rest of their miserable seditious lives in Cuba.

/.02

3 posted on 03/13/2020 9:47:25 AM PDT by tomkat (unreconstructed anachronist)
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To: jazusamo

That man...word escape me.


4 posted on 03/13/2020 9:49:59 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: jazusamo
if CNN had one ounce of decency

Ay, there’s the rub.

5 posted on 03/13/2020 9:50:22 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: jazusamo
Why is this fool still in the White House?
And who is the Deep State operative who decided not to appeal the decision by some Obama judge to let Acosta remain in the White House after he was banned?
6 posted on 03/13/2020 9:53:04 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: SmokingJoe

trump should invite him to the WH for a press conference and have him in a room with journalists from all over asia... and then have them all start coughing at once...

that would be funny.

hehehe


7 posted on 03/13/2020 9:55:44 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world)
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To: jazusamo

Name your “source” Jimmy.


8 posted on 03/13/2020 9:57:08 AM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: jazusamo

Jim Acosta is an a$$hole pure and simple.


9 posted on 03/13/2020 9:59:35 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: tomkat; windsorknot

Amen!


10 posted on 03/13/2020 9:59:40 AM PDT by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: jazusamo

“Little jimmy is obsessed with President Trump, if CNN had one ounce of decency left they’d fire him.”
___________________________________________________

Nothing decent about those tools at CNN. Fire him?
H3ll, they probably give him a raise every time he criticizes Trump!


11 posted on 03/13/2020 10:01:51 AM PDT by bantam
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To: jazusamo

Acosta is the same idiot that accused Trump of being xenophobic for calling the virus a foreign virus?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eZtCq1aj2g&feature=emb_logo


12 posted on 03/13/2020 10:02:48 AM PDT by Leep (Everyday is Trump Day!)
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To: jazusamo

CNN should have fired him after he assaulted the aide who was trying to take back the microphone at a press conference.

Instead the went to court to get his press pass reinstated. I guess they approve of his assaulting staff.


13 posted on 03/13/2020 10:02:51 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: jazusamo

given the dire economic situation being provoked by whole sectors of the economy being shutdown and the terrible impacts on peoples’ lives, this continued crap from the fake stream enemedia is DEFINITELY going to backfire ...


14 posted on 03/13/2020 10:06:38 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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15 posted on 03/13/2020 10:08:23 AM PDT by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: teeman8r
LOL!

I don’t think Acosta is going to last long in the White House with Meadows as Chief of Staff

Trump, Pence and Meadows: Freedom’s Dream Team

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3824242/posts

16 posted on 03/13/2020 10:13:24 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: jazusamo

Protecting his personal health is one of the duties that the President owes to the country.


17 posted on 03/13/2020 10:17:06 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: bray

MY “anonymous sources” tell me that Acosta is infected with the Wuhan-virus.

It follows that Acosta should be “quarantined” far, far away from the White House.

I think an assignment in Milan,Italy would be OK — since Acosta is ALREADY infected...


18 posted on 03/13/2020 10:20:23 AM PDT by pfony1 (All Democrats LIE.)
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To: bray

MY “anonymous sources” tell me that Acosta is infected with the Wuhan-virus.

It follows that Acosta should be “quarantined” far, far away from the White House.

I think an assignment in Milan,Italy would be OK — since Acosta is ALREADY infected...


19 posted on 03/13/2020 10:20:42 AM PDT by pfony1 (All Democrats LIE.)
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To: pfony1

I think Euthanasia is the only compassionate course of action.


20 posted on 03/13/2020 10:24:25 AM PDT by Leep (Everyday is Trump Day!)
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