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‘FALSE’: Jim Acosta’s Fact-Check Of Trump Tweet Gets Fact-Checked

John Bickley

On Wednesday, everyone’s favorite grandstanding CNN chief White House correspondent did some quick fact-checking on a tweet promoting an op-ed by President Trump and found it supposedly loaded with “falsehoods.”

In response to a tweet pushing a guest column by Trump published by USA Today, Acosta said even the promotional tweet contained two claims that were “false and false.” Acosta then chided USA Today, apparently disappointed the editors failed to provide the kind of high-level “fact-checking” he just offered to the public.

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