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McEnany Shuts Down Rude Question From Acosta – Drags Skeleton From CNN’s Closet To Prove Her Point

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany shut down Jim Acosta today in a contentious back and forth with the CNN reporter.

Twitter had marked one of Trump’s tweets as manipulated and CNN Chief White House Correspondent Jim Acosta went after the President during the Press briefing over it.

McEnany silenced Acosta by dragging a few skeletons out of CNN’s closet to prove her point specifically the name of Nick Sandmann.

From The Hill: “Last night, the president tweeted out some fake videos, one of which was labeled ‘manipulated media’ by Twitter,” Acosta said. “Why is the president sharing fake videos on Twitter about two toddlers who are obviously showing a lot of love for one another? It seems as though he is exploiting children to make some sort of point.”

“He was making a point about CNN specifically,” McEnany replied. “A point that CNN has regularly taken him out of context.”

McEnany referred to a lawsuit CNN eventually settled with Nicholas Sandmann, the Covington Catholic High School student whose interaction early last year with Omaha Tribe elder Nathan Phillips at the Lincoln Memorial went viral.

Sandmann, who was wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat during the incident, sued the network for $275 million in May 2019 over the network’s reporting that included allegations CNN was “vilifying and bullying him” and twisting the story to fit an anti-Trump agenda.

The amount of the settlement has not been disclosed.

The CNN reporter pressed McEnany, who is also a former CNN contributor, again about Trump’s Thursday tweet, which included a video of a black toddler and a white toddler edited with a CNN chyron reading “terrified todler[sic] runs from racist baby.”

“So you’re saying it is OK to exploit to toddler hugging one another on to make some sort of political point?” CNN’s Acosta asked. “As you know, the president has described members of the press as fake news during the course of this administration. When you share a vague video like that, doesn’t that make you fake news?”

“I think the president was making satirical point that was quite funny if you go and actually watch the video,” McEnany responded. “The point was it was a play on CNN reportedly taking the repeatedly taking him out of context.”

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