Jim Acosta officially signs off from CNN: “Don‘t give in to the lies. Don‘t give in to the fear”

Nearly 18 years with CNN, Jim Acosta I officially signed from the network with a message addressed to the viewers and some One“It was not the time to bend to a tyrant.”

Acosta, who announced his departure at the end of Tuesday morning, was expected to leave the network within weeks, according to what it said. Brian Stereter, Senior CNN media analyst.

Instead, cut the anchor sooner.

“People often ask me whether the most prominent in my career in CNN is in the White House covering Donald Trump,” Akosta noticed his final notes. In fact, no. That moment came. When former President Barack Obama’s trip to Cuba was covered in 2016, she has the opportunity to interrogate the dictator there, Raul Castro, about political prisoners on the island.

“The son of Cuban refugee. I took this lesson to the home: it’s not the right time to bend to a tyrant. I always thought it’s the task of journalism to calculate the authority. I always tried to do this here in CNN, and I plan to do all of that in the future.”

Acosta advised his fans, “Don’t give up to lies. Don’t give in to fear. Hold the truth and hope. Even if you have to get out of your phone, register this message. I will not give up to lies. I will not give in to fear.”

Acosta’s decision confirms the report of his former colleague Oliver Darcy on Monday in Case news The journalist refused to confront the design of the CEO of CNN Mark Thompson to transfer him from day to midnight.

This severe shift has been placed as part of Reinstall a broader CNN collectionWho also collides with the host of the “Park Chamber” The wolf Blitzer From his long evening berth in the previous Akosta opening, where he was scheduled to participate with Pamela Brown in March.

As noted In the previous case scoopThose familiar with Thompson’s move as an expression of the return president. Acosta aggravated Trump regularly during his first administration when he held the position of main correspondent of the White House CNN.

In a statement submitted to Salon, a CNN spokesman praised the “Acosta Register” of standing up to power, for the first amendment and our press freedoms.

“We want to thank him for the dedication and commitment he brought to his reports and we wish him success in the future,” the statement added.

In November 2018, Acosta He asked the president’s description of the convoys of immigrants It moves towards the Mexican American borders as a “invasion”. After Acosta refused to allow a White House trainee to take off the microphone while asking a follow -up question, Acosta will take off. The White House canceled the Press Pass. The judge ordered the administration to re -pass Acosta after CNN filed a lawsuit joined by other news organizations, and his arrival was restored after less than two weeks.

On Tuesday, Trump posted this response to the news about the social truth: “Jim is the main loser who will fail regardless of where he ends.”

Acosta spared no time to create his next action, unveiled the veil.Jim Acosta show“On Substack. He is the latest cable news character that builds a digital platform after a high -level director, in the wake of his former CNN colleague Without lemonThe previous MSNBC host Mahdi Hassan And the former Fox News host Taker Carlson.

For every CNN spokesman, Brown will take over that Acosta’s 10 AM Timelot, which expands her anchor duties to two hours a week until the new CNN collection is launched this spring.