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Jim Acosta erupts over media ‘cowardice’ in kowtowing to Trump: ‘My friends blew it!’

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Former CNN anchor Jim Acosta issued his “friends in the press” a blistering rebuke Monday for having missed a “golden opportunity” to stand up to President Donald Trump, one he attributed to “cowardice.” In a video published on his Substack, Acosta chastised journalists who attended the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Friday, most of whom sat quietly as Trump hurled broad attacks on the media and individual journalists. “What we saw at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner the other night was an absolute monstrosity. Donald Trump got up on stage, and he went after the free press,” Acosta said. “He targeted individual journalists as political enemies. He celebrated the fact that the oligarchs are taking over the networks. And the people in the audience just sat there in this stunned silence.” Among the many targets of Trump’s attacks on the press during his WHCD speech was Acosta’s former CNN colleague Kaitlan Collins. After having just won an award for Excellence in Presidential

First report: Jim Acosta Falsely Accuses Trump of Jailing Journalists — newsbusters.org, 16d