In its never-ending hate campaign against Donald Trump, one of CNN’s more sinister methods (among many) is to go beyond questioning the president’s patriotism to outright question his very Americanism. This deliberate “othering” of Trump and his White House is what I call an “assassination dogwhistle,” a signal sent out by a powerful news organization that Trump is a dangerous and unstable traitor. On Tuesday, Jim Acosta, the leftwing network’s White House correspondent, followed in the footsteps of his colleague Jake Tapper in questioning the White House’s Americanism.
Back in February, Tapper lashed out at Trump as “un-American.” On Tuesday, Acosta asked if the Trump White House “feel[s] like America”:
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