The Great Smoky Mountain Journal
Staff Reports
Posted: Monday, January 01, 2018 12:25 PM
Eric Trump Fires Back At CNN Asking Does Network Now Have "Moral Compass" After Rigging Clinton Debate
“Suddenly @CNN has a moral compass? Giving the debate questions to your preferred candidate ahead of time—is that bad for our democracy?” Eric Trump tweeted Monday morning in response to an earlier Twitter debate Acosta was having with his father.
Calling the American news media ‘fake
news’ may feel good to some. It may energize the base. But it’s bad for
our democracy,” Acosta tweeted Sunday morning.
Eric Trump's tweet on Monday referred to the network’s former
contributor and DNC official Donna Brazile allegedly leaking the
network’s debate questions to Hillary Clinton during the 2016
presidential election.
President Trump tweeted something similar on Sunday morning saying,
“HillaryClinton can illegally get question to the Debate & delete 30,000
emails but my son Don is being scored by the Fake News media?”
This is not the first time Acosta has been confronted by the Trumps. The
White House correspondent had a confrontation with the president in
February over his network’s ratings, and lately has slammed the Trump
administration for not holding regular on-camera press briefings and not
taking questions from the cable network.
In January, President Trump called CNN “fake news” to Acosta’s face as
he tried to ask questions in a press briefing.
The president’s tweet referring to the leaked debate questions was an
attempt to defend his eldest son Donald Trump Jr.’s June 2016 meeting
with Russian attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya and others