Since Donald Trump left the White House, Jim Acosta hasn’t been doing well.
Yelling at Trump during press briefings was the only reason he got any attention.
And now he’s furious after Trump supporters chanted two words to his face.
Over the weekend, thousands of conservatives gathered in Orlando, Florida for the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).
The attendees overwhelmingly showed their support for Donald Trump, with a strong majority voting for him in their 2024 election straw poll.
But among this fiercely pro-Trump crowd were fake news figures like Jim Acosta.
Considering that Acosta’s fame has come almost entirely from antagonizing Trump, he wasn’t given the warmest welcome.
When he walked through the event, a massive crowd formed around him chanting “CNN sucks,” and “fake news.”
Acosta clearly wasn’t welcome, which isn’t surprising considering he has spent the past four years attacking the very people who attend CPAC.
Along with being inundated with chants, he was also faced with uncomfortable questions.
Moments after the chants broke out, he was faced with questions from a reporter with the Federalist about the network’s coverage of Democrat New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.
With Cuomo facing a number of scandals, the network hasn’t spent much time talking about him, despite spending the past year talking about him virtually every day, painting him as the U.S. authority on coronavirus.
Acosta was asked, “when are you guys going to start covering Cuomo.”
When the fake news reporter refused to answer it, the Federalist reporter continued hammering him.
“He killed 10,000 people, and he’s accused of sexual assault,” the reporter said.
“And you guys wanna talk about Ted Cruz.”
“We are covering it. I don’t know what you’re talking about,” Acosta responded.
“You’re not,” the reporter fired back.
“Okay. Well, we agree to disagree,” Acosta said.
“We don’t agree to disagree. You’re not covering Cuomo,” the reporter accurately said.
While it is true that CNN has covered Cuomo’s scandals, they have spent very little time compared to the amount of time they spent elevating him over the last year.
Over the last year, they allowed Cuomo to appear on air with his brother and CNN host Chris Cuomo for softball interviews.
And the network has aired his news conferences in place of then-President Trump’s news conferences on coronavirus.
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