'Incoherent stream of consciousness': Fed-up CNN anchor cuts off Trump speech
A fed-up CNN anchor cut away from former President Donald Trump's campaign event Tuesday to complain about blatant falsehoods and incoherent rambling.
Jim Acosta cut live coverage from a Latino roundtable event at Trump National Doral to share his views on the Republican presidential nominee's commentary.
"That is former president Donald Trump holding what is being described as a Latino roundtable in Miami," Acosta said. "Although as you just heard a few moments ago, it was sort of a rambling, incoherent stream of consciousness."
In the approximate 75 seconds before Acosta cut away from Trump, the former president touched the following subjects: the number of days left until the election, his opinion that Vice President Kamala Harris is "lazy as hell," whether Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) was more liberal than Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) (to whom he referred only as "Pocahontas"), why the media has not interviewed Harris' father, the state of the modern press, and the Atlanta Constitution.
"Who the hell takes off?" Trump began. "We have 14 days left. And she'll take a couple of more days off too, you know why? She's lazy as hell and she's got that reputation. She's a radical left lunatic. She's further left than Bernie Sanders or Pocahontas. Now, Pocahontas, because I think, is Pocahontas, Rick, is Pocahontas further left than Bernie? Just about, right? It's close. It's close. Who the hell cares right? Rick says, 'Eh, I don't know.' But they're out there. But she's, but she's furthest left. We can't have a person, she's a Marxist. Her father's a Marxist professor, by the way. The fake news, look at all of them, where's the father? We should interview because I'd find it interesting to see what he has to say. I don't know, they seem to have a problem, but it would be nice to interview the father. He's a Marxist professor and I think that's okay. that's good, fine. but I think it's appropriate that the father be interviewed by the fake news. They don't want to interview him and I wonder why. If we had a real press in this country, this wouldn't even be a race. And I'm not sure it is a race anyway. They just came out with the Atlanta constitution—"
Acosta and CNN fact checker Daniel Dale then proceeded to provide viewers with a lengthy fact check — noting the former president far outpaces his political opponent for falsehoods.
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"She's not a Marxist, obviously she's not lazy as hell," Acosta said. "She was a district attorney in San Francisco, attorney general in California, senator from California, and Vice President. You can't really be lazy as hell if you're doing all of those things."
Dale then checked Trump on his claim that Harris was taking the day off from her campaign.
"She is off the campaign trail in terms of rallies, also taping two pretty high-profile interviews," he said. "She's not on the beach."
Dale said Trump presented fact checkers quite the challenge as he stacked up tens of thousands of falsehoods and misleading statements.
"We're seeing just a deluge on things like FEMA and migrants, about immigration, about the legitimacy of American elections," Dale said. "We're very busy with Mr. Trump right now to a far greater extent than we're busy with Vice President Harris."