CNN’s Acosta: Trump ‘Shouldn’t Be’ Pushing People’s Buttons, Driving Down Our Discourse

Monday on CNN’s “Newsroom,” chief network White House correspondent Jim Acosta argued that President Donald Trump “really shouldn’t be engaged” in “pushing people’s buttons.”

While discussing today’s White House briefing with Sarah Sanders, Acosta said, “Obviously Democrats don’t hate Jewish people. That is just a silly thing to say. It just goes to where we are headed over the next 18 to 24 months, we are in for probably, it’s astonishing to say this and to hear it, but we’re in for the nastiest campaign we’ve ever seen in our lifetimes coming up in 2020.”

“I wanted to ask whether or not the president plans on tamping down that rhetoric because as we know, he is largely responsible for this driving down of our political discourse,” he continued. “You know, going out and making speeches saying Democrats are anti-Jewish or hating Jewish people. That just goes to pushing people’s buttons in ways that you know the president of the United States really shouldn’t be engaged in doing.”

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