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With the dust settled — for now — on the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who on Tuesday was convicted of murdering George Floyd, several journalists, including CNN's Jake Tapper, resurrected the original Minneapolis Police Department statement regarding Floyd's death last May. The vague press release said only that a man had a 'medical incident' during an arrest. Jake Tapper is getting dragged on twitter. #GoodDays — Kris Kinder (@kriskinder) March 6, 2021. So the CNN anchor gave his side, and here’s some of the other: This is so dishonest. UPDATE: After CNN's Jake Tapper questioned Rep. Brian Mast's (R-FL) commitment to democracy, Mast, who lost two legs while serving in Afghanistan, responded to Tapper on Twitter. 'I lost two legs.

The never-ending coverage of the 2020 presidential election has given us several pretty incrediblemedia moments. On Thursday night, CNN's Jake Tapper got in on the action.

Tapper saw a tweet from former college football coach Tommy Tuberville, who just won a senate seat in Alabama. He responded viciously and it was pretty great. He also tossed in some Auburn shade as well.

Tuberville took to Twitter and gave credence to the conspiracy theories being tossed around by Donald Trump's supporters:

That tweet was out of bounds according to Twitter's guidelines and was slapped with a warning label. Tapper has spent the better part of the last two days combating that kind of misinformation. He's probably just a little fed up and he shot back at Tuberville:

Someone get Tommy an icepack to cool off that burn.

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Tapper continued:

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I can't imagine being a cable network personality this week. They're all overworked, likely overtired and have been rehashing and repeating themselves for three days now. They've got to be exhausted by all the misinformation they've been combating and dealing with.