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CNN declined to comment on "speculation" at the time and Acosta made his own exit, telling viewers not to "bow down to a tyrant."

“It is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant. Don’t give into the lies. Don’t give into the fear. Hold on to the truth and to hope,” he said, signing off for the last time at CNN.

I took home this lesson: It is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant.

After nearly 18 years with CNN, Jim Acosta officially signed off from the network with a message directed at viewers and a certain audience of one: “It is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant.”

They urge me to bow down to the president and accept his victory as a mandate against all they despise about the progressive left: its insistence that centuries of racial and gender discrimination will not magically disappear without intervention, that women should be able to control their own bodies, that all Americans should have health insurance, that the very rich should pay their fair share of taxes and that we are — proudly — a nation of immigrants.