CNN Newsroom host Jim Acosta and fact-checker Daniel Dale white knighted for Kamala Harris on Tuesday as the pair reacted to a Donald Trump forum where Trump called Harris a “Marxist” and “lazy as hell.” Acosta thought such comments were “incoherent,” while Dale claimed they proved that the two candidates cannot be credibly viewed as equally truthful.
Acosta began by cutting the sound from Trump’s event and opining, “And that is former President Donald Trump holding what is being described as a Latino roundtable in Miami, although, as you just heard a few moments ago, it was sort of a rambling, incoherent string of consciousness or something close to that from the former president.”
He proceeded to claim, “He went on a variety of tangents during that rant a few moments ago. He described Kamala Harris as – quote, ‘lazy as hell,’…
