CNN’s Jim Acosta slams Trump’s ‘fake news’ immigrant lie in New Orleans attack
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‘When there’s an act of terrorism in this country, the incoming president should tell the truth to the American people. Isn’t that what the president should do at all times?’ news host asks Trump supporters. Frustrated CNN news host Jim Acosta accused Donald Trump himself Thursday of peddling “fake news” with his repeated lie that the deadly New Orleans truck attacker was an immigrant.
Shamsud Din Jabbar, who was fatally shot by police, was a born-in-the-U.S.A. American citizen and a military veteran. “Here he goes again,” Acosta said of the president-elect amid a heated interview with Neil Chatterjee, who was Trump’s commissioner of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in his last administration. “He talks about everybody else being fake news, and he’s the one peddling fake news.”.
Chatterjee initially said that Trump’s remarks shouldn’t be taken “literally,” and that his slams against immigrants after the truck attack was not necessarily directedat “this individual,” meaning Jabbar. He added: “What he is saying in that Truth Social post is false! ... When there’s an act of terrorism in this country, the incoming president should tell the truth to the American people. Isn’t that what the president should do at all times?”.
