CNN Trump-Baiting Anchor ‘Expected To Exit’ Network, Says Ex-Colleague | EUROtoday

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Jim Acosta is reportedly heading for the doorways at CNN.

The anchor has “signaled to associates in private conversations over the weekend that he intends to depart the network after its chief executive, Mark Thompson, booted him from the morning programming lineup,” reported Status News’ Oliver Darcy on Monday.

Acosta is “expected to exit CNN,” mentioned Darcy, a former colleague of Acosta on the community.

The journalist was reportedly provided to maneuver from his 10 a.m. Eastern time slot to the midnight to 2 a.m. shift amid a wider shake-up of CNN’s broadcasting schedule and a restructure of its general operations, which final week noticed the announcement of round 200 layoffs because the enterprise pivots to spice up its digital providing.

Acosta repeatedly clashed with Donald Trump through the president’s first time period, at one level even incomes himself a brief suspension of his White House press credentials.

In 2019, he wrote “The Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America” about “the dangers he faces reporting” on the Trump White House “on the front lines in President Trump’s war on truth.”

And regardless of garnering respectable scores for his morning present, a supply informed Darcy final week that CNN needed to “get rid of Acosta to throw a bone to Trump.”

“Sidelining Acosta would also work to curry favor with Donald Trump, who very much despises the CNN anchor,” Darcy added.

Acosta has not but publicly commented on the report by his onetime colleague.

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