Communist News Network's Jim Acosta tries to divide America and hurt COVID-19 efforts

CNN's Jim Acosta has once again proven that not only is he not a journalist but a useful idiot for the Communist Party, but that he would want to see President Trump's efforts at getting the government to deal with the COVID-19 [coronavirus] fail and allow Americans to die in the process.

There's little doubt that this is the Communist News Network's latest attempt to weaponize coronavirus against President Trump. [H/T Fox News]

Acosta’s story headlined, “Source: Trump is concerned about coming into contact with people infected with coronavirus,” cited a single source “close to” the president who said Trump is worried after coming into contact with a Brazilian official who tested positive for coronavirus. The president of Brazil also later tested positive for the virus.

"See, I'm touching you; I'm touching you."

Acosta, on the other hand, says that he welcomes contact with those infected with the virus that has now become a pandemic. "I touch strangers; I touch children," he said, "and I'm going to continue touching people no matter what the cost to my personal safety. Trump doesn't have the guts to touch people with coronavirus because, unlike me and Brian Stelter, we enjoy the touch and contact with strangers."

Reacting to Acosta's words Media Research Center Vice President Dan Gainor told Fox News: "This is them most idiotic thing I've seen all week. And this week that's saying something. Of course, ‘Trump is concerned about coming into contact with people infected with coronavirus.’ We all are. And we're all supposed to be. That's how you stop a virus, by being concerned about who you interact with and taking precautions.”

“I know Jim Acosta hates Trump. But this is even stupid for one of the most ridiculous figures in the history of journalism. What's amazing is Acosta isn't even good at trolling Trump. All he does is embarrass CNN and further degrade the news industry,” Gainor said. “CNN is trying to hurt Trump and divide our country in a time of national crisis.”

DePauw University professor and media critic Jeffrey McCall said that Acosta’s story “clearly falls into the category of ‘this is not news’” and simply the latest example of CNN’s anti-Trump business model.

“That CNN and it's White House correspondent want to make a big deal out of a normal concern is just more indication of their wide-ranging agenda to pester the Trump administration,” McCall told Fox News.

But Acosta doubled-down: "I welcome a fight with COVID-19. I'm not afraid a little microscopic organism can hurt me--I'm Jim Freaking Acosta."

The O Estado de S. Paulo newspaper reported Thursday that Fabio Wajngarten, met with President Trump in Mar-A-Lago on Saturday, tested positive for the virus early Wednesday. Health officials confirmed the diagnosis. 

Friday, Fox News confirmed that Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil's president who also met with Trump on Saturday, also tested positive. This may be a factor in President Trump's concern--he is, at the age of 73, within the parameters of those most highly vulnerable to the virus.

This story is what is known as a CNN "scoop."

“Any sensible person would prefer to avoid the virus, so reporting that Trump is concerned is really a ‘so what?’ moment journalistically,” McCall said. “Using an unnamed source to leak this story when there are plenty of on-the-record sources available to the media to discuss the matter is also curious. Given the many other important aspects of the COVID-19 situation that need attention, this comes off as a real journalistic tangent and waste of time.”

Gainor’s colleague, MRC director Tom Graham, joked that the alternative headline could have been, “EVERYONE is concerned about coming into contact with people infected with coronavirus.”

It's time for Jim Acosta to do what he is more suited for: becoming a test pilot. Yes, he can test the pilot light of old gas stoves that still use a pilot light rather than the modern day igniter. If Acosta can blow out the tiny flame, the stove is considered defective . . .  like his thinking.


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