Widely considered the leader of “fake news,” CNN’s White House press correspondent Jim Acosta has been working on a book sure to up the ante on muckraking.
Even among other so-called “journalists,” Acosta is considered a complete and utter disgrace. His inappropriate behavior includes a lengthy list of transgressions such as shouting filth-laden questions about porn star Stormy Daniels while the president interacted with small children. The anti-Trump network personality talks over reporters during White House press briefings and has been suspended for refusing to yield the microphone to professional news media.
In the midst of purposeful leaks that he has been compiling a hit book designed to impugn President Trump and others working in the White House, Acosta has been outed for pushing an unsubstantiated allegation from a disgruntled former campaign worker as factually correct.
It seems almost ironic that another biased, anti-Trump book would discredit Acosta, but a former West Wing official recently proved that Acosta peddled misinformation designed to damage the Trump Administration in his salacious book, “Team of Vipers: My Extraordinary 500 Days in the Trump White House.”
Former West Wing official Cliff Sims wrote that Acosta used a single unsubstantiated source to target White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders after their working relationship had soured. The incident occurred as CNN was pushing the failed Stormy Daniels scandal narrative that saw porn star lawyer Michael Avenatti appear upwards of 58 times in a two-month period. His on-air interviews outpaced members of Congress.
Although Sims’ book is reportedly itself a hit-piece on the Trump Administration, it details a meeting with the president who was rooting out leakers. President Trump allegedly said that an internal dispute might prompt a disgruntled employee to sling dirt at Sanders falsely. This is a reported excerpt from the tell-all book:
“We need to pay attention to CNN, because I think something bad might be about to happen,” President Trump said. I joked that such a statement could apply to almost any moment. But in this particular instance, Cheung explained that one of our former campaign colleagues was mad at Sarah Sanders — he wasn’t entirely clear why — and was sending Cheung cryptic texts that he “had something coming for her on CNN.” Sure enough, an article popped up on CNN’s website shortly thereafter with the headline “Trump Upset with Sanders.”
Acosta earned a byline on the piece that included CNN’s Veronica Stracqualursi and a pair of contributors at the bottom. Sims was apparently in the loop about the anticipated single-sourced allegation that could not be substantiated. Acosta wrote a narrative that President Trump was angry with Sanders over her handling of the Stormy Daniels scandal, and the CNN celebrity only indicated the information came from a “source close to the White House.”
CNN and other anti-Trumpers like Acosta have set aside the multiple source standard traditionally used by journalists to corroborate information. Acosta later jacked the story up with language such as “Sarah gave the Stormy Daniels storyline steroids yesterday.”
Even though Acosta would have known the staffer had an ax to grind against Sanders, he went on TV to provide a theatrical — and fictional — account of the broken relationship between President Trump and the White House press secretary. His acting skills where hardly sufficient to sway viewers and Sims’ book leaves egg on the CNN personality’s face.
Sims book reportedly says: All of this, of course, was based on a single anonymous source. But unlike the public, we knew this source went around town convincing people — journalists and clients alike — that he maintained a close relationship with the President. In reality, Trump couldn’t have picked him out of a lineup. He had completely made up the story about the President being mad at Sarah. Acosta had run the single-sourced story, apparently unconcerned about whether it was true or not. And that’s how your CNN news was programmed for the day.
Sims indicated that Acosta and other CNN employees were more than happy to help the former White House staffer get even with Sanders because they too have a vendetta.
Acosta’s anti-administration work will obviously be yet another work of fiction by a CNN source. False narratives come and go at the leader in fake news and the White House correspondent’s publishing house, Harper Collins, has already begun hyping the book.
“Acosta, a veteran of reporting on four administrations, presents a damning vision of bureaucratic dysfunction, deception and danger,” Harper Collins reportedly said in a statement, “offering a fly on the wall view of the White House communications during one of the most dramatic and contentious, but consequential, times in the country’s history.”
Although the title is expected to be, “The Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America,” some media resources have already begun mocking the book. It is well known that Acosta’s antics are designed to land him an on-air spot on CNN or another liberal network. Nothing he could offer could be taken seriously at this point, but that’s also why CNN’s ratings are so low.
