As Twitchy reported earlier, the brave firefighters in the media rushed in to rescue Rep. Ilhan Omar after a reporter asked President Trump about her background and rumors that she’d committed immigration fraud.

Among them was CNN’s Jim Acosta, who tweeted:

Congresswoman Omar has denied this and other claims about her as "disgusting lies." But Trump was willing to dive right in.https://t.co/XcTftAN0fR https://t.co/rJqpMpvtam — Jim Acosta (@Acosta) July 17, 2019

Oh, she denies the allegations, so that’s the end of that. #Journalism https://t.co/o04UD4zAhp — Sohrab Ahmari (@SohrabAhmari) July 18, 2019

If only there were a group of people whose job it was to investigate and report their findings to the people via various media. Oh well. — Beard and Circus (@Shooter_ptpx01) July 17, 2019

She denied it. Investigation complete! — Mo Mo (@molratty) July 17, 2019

Oh I see you didn’t cover this issue until Trump said something. ? You’re a laughing stock. This has been in news for months. — Kambree Kawahine Koa (@KamVTV) July 17, 2019

Oh, she denied it? Well, dang. Guess it ain’t true then. Fiddlesticks. *kicks a rock* — Wesley Mullins (@wesleyamullins) July 17, 2019

Oh well if the anti-semite Omar said, it certainly must be true — Frank Hart (@FrankHartII) July 17, 2019

I'm sure it's easily provable that he's lying. — LKing (@LKing0228) July 17, 2019

Weird, you handled Trump denying allegations against him totally differently… pic.twitter.com/Sv2228Q82F — Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) July 17, 2019

That is weird.

"she denied this so there's no need to investigate this" is quite the approach to reporting, Jim. — Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) July 17, 2019

It's like they have some kind of agenda or something — Ron Guey ⚠️ (@RonSwandive) July 17, 2019

Wait. I'm starting to think Acosta may not play it straight. — Chris (@CML_Texas) July 17, 2019

Seriously, would you expect anything different? — Patrick Cavanagh (@PTC2242) July 17, 2019

This would be embarrassing if it wasn’t so tragic to see where journalism has landed. — FA in HFX (@AkulFred) July 18, 2019

Well, if she denies it, then it must be true. No one would lie to keep their job hating America, would they? — Canoeman (@Canoesmith1) July 18, 2019

You are quite the journalist @Acosta — FreeThinker (@FreeThinkerInNC) July 18, 2019

So, as a journalist, shouldn’t you be able to investigate the “he said/she said” facts and bring them into public view, no matter where the truth takes you? — Politically Agnostic (@joeleyare) July 18, 2019

Well the fact that she denies it is proof, what more do people want — Woke Auditor (@marctheflom) July 17, 2019

Wow, so much different than the press diving into the Russian dossier which had no corroboration. — Kirk (@rougblog) July 17, 2019

So CNN’s Acosta is calling the Star-Tribune “fake news?” We thought journalists had a compact or something to stick together against the common enemy: Trump.

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