"You are the enemy of the people": Trump insults journalist CNN Acosta

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Wednesday, November 7, 2018

At Donald Trump's press conference after the mid-term elections in the US, the president and a CNN reporter again quarreled. This is not the first fierce battle of words that Trump has ever had with journalist Jim Acosta.

President Trump's press conference after the mid-term elections again caused a scandal in the media: Trump sparked an open discussion on the debate with CNN reporter Jim Acosta. "You are a terrible and scandalous person," the president told a well-known journalist in the United States. "If you write false news about what CNN is doing, you are the enemy of the people," he said. CNN must be ashamed to employ someone like Acosta.

The reporter had initially asked if Trump thought he was "demonizing" the migrants because he had called the group "invasion". The president did not like the question: "I think you should let me run the country, you'll take care of CNN, and if you do a good job with that, your grades would be much better."

Acosta attempted to ask another question about the ongoing investigation in Russia conducted by Special Investigator Robert Mueller. Trump was visibly angry – the situation worsened. When another journalist later tried to defend his colleague Acosta, Trump slammed hard: "I'm not a fan of you either."

CNN defends Acosta

CNN has condemned Trump's statements in a statement. "The president's constant attacks on the press have gone too far," the report said. "Not only are they dangerous, they are disturbed by the non-American." Although Trump has sworn allegiance to the freedom of the press as enshrined in the US Constitution, he is obliged to protect it, but he has repeatedly said that he had no respect for the freedom of the press. the press. "We support Jim Acosta and his colleagues everywhere," said the company's management.

The US president also spoke of "hostile media" at the press conference. Several times, he urged journalists to shut up and sit down. Almost two years ago, Trump had already been bumped into Acosta in New York – even before he took office – because he had not liked his questions.

Always worse relationship with CNN

Trump's relationship with the US broadcaster CNN has deteriorated since the second pre-election televised debate that preceded his election as president in September 2015: Trump told the broadcaster, at the independent television agency, that advertising revenues from the broadcaster came out of the debate donate to veterans. The sender refused that. He then criticized the station several times.

At a press conference in early January 2017, Trump criticized CNN for publishing an article on possible contacts of employees of his presidential campaign in Russia. When Jim Acosta asked a question there, Trump said, "Not you, your organization is awful." During the press conference, Trump called CNN Fake News.

Since then, relations between CNN and Trump have continued to deteriorate. Earlier this year, Trump mentioned the name of the CNN reporter Acosta in a tweet, calling him "crazy."

Source: n-tv.de