Newt Gingrich: "Trump Is Deliberately Trying To Shrink And Isolate CNN"

On Wednesday's edition of Sean Hannity's radio show, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich explained why Donald Trump lashed out at CNN's Jim Acosta during his press conference this afternoon.





SEAN HANNITY: I've never seen a press conference like that in my entire life and everything that I said back in 2008 -- "journalism is dead" -- Trump probably buried it today, at least people's faith and confidence. If you didn't feel that journalism was dead after this election season where the media -- every single media outlet -- was proven to collude with the Hillary Clinton campaign, I don't know what else to tell you. Joining us now is former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. Can you remember a single time where the person who arguing and yelling at the president-elect was Jim Acosta from CNN, and his last line was "You're not appropriate." Do you ever remember Barrack Obama ever being treated like this?



GINGRICH: No, because Barack Obama is the press' hand-picked loved candidate. There was a certain amount of yelling back and forth that you see [Ronald] Reagan get into, particularly Sam Donaldson. There's a couple things going on here. One is, Trump is deliberately trying to shrink and isolate CNN, and CNN is working hard to be worthy of that. This whole interlude of this -- all of our listeners ought to think about this. The so-called intelligence leadership happens to have a two-page document, about which we know nothing, which alleges Trump might have done something, which they cannot define.