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CNN’s Jim Acosta Calls Out Kayleigh’s Hypocrisy to Her Face, ‘Why Not Have the Guts to Trash Dr. Fauci With Your Own Names?’

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We have documented the bizarre decision made by the White House to forward opposition research to the media regarding one of the world’s most respected physicians. We’ve broken down the story several times. What we haven’t been able to do is direct questions directly at the White House spokesperson Kayleigh McEnany. Thankfully, Jim Acosta from CNN had both the position, ability, and intelligence to back Kayleigh into a corner in pursuit of the truth. Kayleigh had nowhere to run.

Mediaite has the breakdown:

Early on in Monday’s briefing, Acosta asked about the White House’s memo to reporters which called out Fauci’s incorrect or out-of-context early remarks about the coronavirus. Acosta noted that the memo looks like “opposition research” against the top member of the White House’s coronavirus task force, and he especially wanted to know why none of Fauci’s detractors were named, given President Donald Trump’s disdain for anonymous sources.

Sounds like a more than reasonable, if penetrating question. These reporters received the discrediting info on Fauci from the White House, it’s entirely fair to ask why they got it, what is the point?

“Why is the White House trashing Dr. Fauci?” Acosta asked. “The president has gone off on anonymous sources in the past. Why not have the guts to trash Dr. Fauci with your own names?”

Hypocrisy alert. The White House goes on purges looking for leakers as anonymous sources, but when stuff gets out through the White House’s own anonymous supporters, it’s okay, obviously.

Enany responded by praising Trump’s leadership, citing Fauci’s positive past comments about Trump, and she insisted that the two of them “have always had a good working relationship.”

Yes, it is always about Trump’s greatness and “strong leadership” (the only kind that matters to Trump, but not the only kind of real leadership

Fauci’s media presence and his time with the president have both greatly diminished in recent days, and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director recently suggested that it might have something to do with his brutally honest assessments about the pandemic and the government’s response.

Yes, because when the numbers get terrible the last thing Trump wants is a brutally honest person standing there stating that opening schools and states will result in needless death and long term impacts.

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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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