Donald Trump just lost to Jim Acosta again
CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta is so good at doing his job, Donald Trump once tried (and failed) to get Acosta banned from White House press briefings. Trump loves to keep digging when he’s in a hole, so now that Acosta has reported something that Trump doesn’t like, Trump is making accusations against Acosta that are backfiring on him.
Trump tweeted this: “CNN has no sources on the Task Force. Their ‘sources’ are made up, pure fiction! Jim Acosta is a Fake reporter!” Anyone with even a smidgeon of common sense knows that a major news outlet like CNN isn’t going to invent fake inside sources, because the risk wouldn’t be worth it. Further, Acosta’s well-established credibility means that no one outside Trump’s shrinking base is going to buy this.
Sure enough, “Jim Acosta” began trending atop Twitter after Donald Trump’s idiotic tweet, and the vast majority of the mentions were in Acosta’s favor. So now Trump has merely served to further raise Acosta’s profile – and by forcing people to choose between whether to believe Trump or believe Acosta, Trump has managed to further undermine his own credibility.
