CNN’s chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta was verbally harassed by people attending President Trump’s Monday evening rally in South Carolina, according to media reports.

At one point, the crowd started to chant “Go home, Jim!” ahead of a campaign event Trump is attending for Republican Gov. Henry McMaster, who is going up against fellow Republican John Warren in a runoff election on Tuesday.





The antipathy towards CNN has resulted in repeated instances of chants at Trump events. Just last week in Minnesota, the crowd at a Trump rally chanted “CNN sucks” after Trump bashed “the fake news.”

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"And I've said before if I would have said that to you during the campaign, those very dishonest people back there, the fake news. Very dishonest," Trump said.

Earlier this month, Trump’s 2020 campaign manager Brad Parscale argued that Acosta’s press credential should be rescinded after Acosta shouted at North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during his meeting with Trump in Singapore, "Will you give up your nuclear weapons, sir?'"

Acosta responded to the criticism by saying, “Dictatorships take away press credentials. Not democracies.”

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