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On Thursday’s The Situation Room, CNN analysts and correspondents brought out the long knives for President Trump after his disturbing and startling comments about certain countries being “sh***holes,” using it to bludgeon home the notion that Trump is “racist” and “inject[ing] a lot of poison” into the immigration debate.
Chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta led the way in CNN’s casual, uncensored use of the word in question. Around 5:15 p.m. Eastern, Acosta declared that, taken his history into account, “the President seems to harbor racist feelings about people of color from other parts of the world.”