Jim Acosta confirms he’s leaving CNN with bitter on-air anti-Trump diatribe
Jim Acosta published a bitter definitive Diatribe when he confirmed that he was stopping CNN after he started from his first lock.
Closing his CNN Newsroom show just before 11 am et Tuesday, Costa, 53, looked directly into the camera and said: ‘A final message – do not give in to the lies.
‘Do not admit the fear. Hold on to the truth and hope.
‘Even if you have to get out of your phone. Make a note of that message. I will not admit to the lies. I will not admit to the fear placed on your social media, so that people also hear from you. ‘
Acosta said he would share news about his next career movement in the coming days.
The experienced newsman – who spent 18 years at CNN – was humiliated earlier this month when it leaked that he would be exempted despite good ratings from his 10 -hour slot.
Wolf Blitzer’s The Situation Room takes over the lock instead.
Acosta, who lives in Washington DC, was offered a cemetery midnight until 2 hours of lock by boss Mark Thompson.
Jim Acosta confirmed that on Tuesday he is leaving CNN – with a speech on -Air where he told the viewers not to give in the lies’
It was sold to him as a move to the west coast Primetime and he was offered a move to LA, but refused.
Acosta is famous for his collisions with Donald Trump – including one who saw him prohibit from the White House during the first term of the President.
That led to rumors that he was canned from CNN while the channel tries to prevent viewers from insulating as the reviews slip.
During the same last message, Acosta said that his best moment with the network was not his famous collision of November 2018 with Donald Trump.
Acosta revealed that he was the most proud of a 2016 trip to Cuba to visit the then President Barack Obama when he received the dictator Raul Castro from the island.
He explained: ‘As the son of a Cuban refugee I took this lesson home. It is never a good time to bend for a tyrant.
‘I have always believed that it is the task of the press to keep power in account. I have always tried to do that here at CNN, and I plan to do all of that in the future. ‘