Another Mask Double Standard: Maskless Acosta Scolds McEnany for Announcing She Won't Wear a Mask at Trump Rally

Ryan Foley | June 20, 2020
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Delivering a report from the White House on Friday’s edition of The Situation Room, CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta scolded White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany for saying that she would not be wearing a mask at President Trump’s campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Ironically, as Acosta criticized McEnany, who described the decision to wear a mask as a “personal choice,” the CNN reporter appartently made the same “personal choice,” as he was not wearing a mask. Acosta also claimed that “the President is threatening some of the protesters who will demonstrate outside the rally, saying they may be roughed up, warning that “the President is ready to unleash the same kinds of brutal tactics used to clear out Lafayette Square earlier this month.” The report also touched upon one of President Trump’s tweets “exploiting video of two young toddlers hugging one another to take pot shots at press coverage of racism in the U.S. Acosta seemed excited that Twitter called the satirical video “manipulated media” and played a clip of himself asking McEnany if sharing the video meant that the White House was “fake news.”

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