How rabidly anti-Trump is CNN? During their Tuesday edition of CNN Newsroom, they proved that their kneejerk reaction to nearly everything former President Trump said was to suggest he was lying. Despite the facts showing that the Secret Service’s incompetence led to Trump being shot in the head by a would-be assassin, host Jim Acosta and law enforcement analyst Jonathan Wackrow insisted that it was “irresponsible” and “not the reality of the situation” for Trump to say he was not properly protected.
Their ridiculous assertions came while they were reporting on the breaking news that Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle was resigning. “And there's also reaction coming in from Donald Trump. Apparently, he said on Truth Social, ‘the Biden-Harris administration did not properly protect me and I was forced to take a bullet for democracy. It was my great honor to do so,’” Acosta read.
Together, the duo clutched their pearls as they decried Trump’s comments as beyond the pale:
ACOSTA: I mean, obviously the Secret Service is a professional operation, you know, that the fact – to say something like ‘they did not protect me,’ it just sounds just wildly irresponsible.
WACKROW: Yeah. I mean, he's just capitalizing on the moment and it's – he's looking at this through the color of politics, not the reality of the situation.
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