Yes, he gets death threats from Trump fans, says Jim Acosta, a CNN correspondent. So do plenty of other newspeople covering the White House.
Right-wing anger about the press comes from the President's attitudes, Acosta said on a CNN show, Reliable Sources, on Sunday. "It is just a pervasive hostility and anti-democratic hostility towards the process that I just hope we never receive the likes of ever again."
Acosta wrote a memoir, "Enemy of the People," last year. The title is one of Trump's descriptions of journalists.
"We can't be at a place in this country where political reporters, White House correspondents, need bodyguards to cover political campaign events," Acosta said.
We couldn't agree more!
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