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.”

Acosta, who announced his departure at the close of his Tuesday morning show, had been expected to leave the network within weeks, according to CNN’s chief media analyst Brian Stelter.

Instead, the anchor cut the cord sooner.

“People often ask me if the highlight of my career at CNN was at the White House covering Donald Trump,” Acosta observed in his final remarks. “Actually, no. That moment came . . . when I covered former President Barack Obama's trip to Cuba in 2016 and had the chance to question the dictator there, Raul Castro, about the island's political prisoners.

“As the son of a Cuban refugee. I took home this lesson: It is never a good time to bow down to a........

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