CNN’s Jim Acosta, who repeatedly fought with the White House during the Trump presidency, continued his battle with the former president in calling him the “Mussolini of Mar-a-Lago.”
He made those comments in criticism of the Republicans who voted against creating a commission to study the events surrounding the storming of the Capitol on January 6.
“Hopes for a bipartisan commission to investigate what happened on January 6th are fading fast,” Acosta said on CNN Newsroom Saturday.
“Almost as fast as some Republican leaders are sprinting from a key question, whether GOP lawmakers were in communication with the insurrectionists. See how they run.”
Acosta: You remember the Mussolini of Mar-a-Lago writing in his blog… pic.twitter.com/2b5lXYpHZv
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Acosta noted that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell “initially sounded open to a commission” but quickly reversed course and “showed off his cat-like reflexes, side-stepping the idea,” calling the Democrats idea a “slanted and unbalanced proposal for another commission to study the events of January 6.”
“You didn’t know he could move so fast, did you? Like a ninja,” Acosta said, comparing it to McConnell’s original comments on a second Trump impeachment where he appeared open to the idea before voting to acquit the president.
McConnell had his differences with Trump but was supportive of the president when it came to actual votes, which irked Acosta, describing his decision to acquit Trump as “not exactly a profile in courage, more like cowardice and calculation.”
“That’s because Republican leaders have made the decision to put next year’s mid-term election ahead of the good of the country and that Trump is the key to winning back control of Congress,” Acosta added.
“You remember the Mussolini of Mar-a-Lago writing in his blog, which has become his online diary, you could say. Trump demanded that Republican leaders shut down this commission like he pressed his button for another Diet Coke,” claimed Acosta.
Since Trump was banned from Twitter, he has started a blog on his website called, “From the Desk of Donald J. Trump,” which he used to urge Republicans to vote against the commission. “Hopefully, Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy are listening!” Trump wrote.
Trump’s influence was felt in the House, which voted to create what the Democrats said would be a bipartisan commission even though 35 Republicans who Acosta said were “brave enough to stand up to Trump and his lies,” voted with the Democrats to create the commission. It now moves on to the Senate, where 60 votes will be required to create the commission.
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acosta is clearly an angry little leftist putz posing as a “journalist”.
That is correct, he is not a journalist, he is a leftist idiot!
Maybe the Kennedy’s will give Acosta, their “Profiles In Courage Award” for being a Fake News communist of the highest order, from CNN Pravda.
Practically EVERYONE IN leftist media, is a PUTZ acting like a journalist… NOT A DAMN ONE of them imo, deserve to even CALL themselves a journalist, let alone enjoy the protections GIVEN TO journalists..
Not only is Trump living in acosta’s simple mind but Donald Duck, Elmer Fudd, Bugs Bunny and The Three Stooges are there too.
That left wing stooge is no journalist , there hasn’t been a real journalist in the msm since Walter Cronkite retired. These fools today are nothing but talking heads throwing out their opinions, not the facts regarding the story. I was surprised to see he still had a job, but then I remembered, he works for that communist news network. Enough said about that.
Cronkite was imo, one of the FEW REAL journalists, we’ve had as a nation over the past 60 years.
Hey Jim…
One of the MAIN reasons REASONABLE Republicans don’t support the January 6th commission, is because it is being setup to be like the Trump Impeachments: Completely ONE SIDES and WITHOUT FACTS.
MANY (dare I say MOST) of us believe this commission intends to be NOTHING MORE than a continuation of the DEBUNKED Trump/Russia collusion hoaxers trying to find SOMETHING (ANYTHING) to pin on Trump and/or Trump Supporters (and will COMPLETELY IGNORE the admitted Antifa guy embedding himself into the Trump supporters and trying to encourage them to cause trouble)!
Frankly, YOU morons from the (so-called) “main stream” media pushed the Trump/Russia collusion hoax for YEARS, and even after the Mueller Report showed NO collusion between Trump (or the Trump Administration/associates) and Russia!
WHY should be have ANY confidence in this commission (run by the SAME biased bottom-feeding, swamp dwellers who were behind the Trump/Russia collusion hoax), or YOU “main stream” media “reporters”?
YOU have proven yourselves (repeatedly) to be UNTRUSTWORTHY and BIASED in your “reporting”!
I’d love to ask Acosta the following..
He would try and confuse you with old Codswallop, Nonsense and useless Babble… It’s the best he’s got…….Loser.
The main reason they don’t want a “Commission” is…………It wasn’t an insurrection. It was a demonstration that Pelosi’s police force let get out of hand. Who do you think runs and controls the Capitol police. Then they (the cops) invited them inside. This was a set up from day one. The cops rolled over, played dead and wanterd something bad to happen so they could blame Trump and the Republicans and put it on TV news for 4 years. The only real insurrection was the frame-up and lying the Democrats did try and frame Trump and remove him from office.
All with the complicity of the media, big tech, the Dept of injustice and FBI..
Jimmy, ole buddy, you know squat about Mussolini or Fascism to make such a comparison. I can’t publish what I’d really like to say but am wondering if the network knows that you are most likely on the wrong side of the bell curve.
This article sounds almost anti Trump, when they should have pushed against the Dems, accusing narrative. What about the pipe bombs found at the Capitol the day before, or the ANTIFA email threats? So why didn’t they have more security. Or why did the officer open the door, to some of the ANTIFA or BLM, who pushed innocent forward first. Apparently, it isn’t enough that the Socialist Democrats spent several years, and millions of dollars to impeach Pres. Trump, on twisted lies, but they persist with a magnifying glass. In Jan., the court reprimanded the Dirty Dems for only showing part of Trump’s speech at the Capitol, blocking where he said to go safely and peacefully. Witnesses have said they saw bus, and van loads of ANTIFA & Marxist BLM push through the crowd. Trump supporters yelled to warn others, as they tried to remove the younger & older. Just more wasted time and money. How many of the Republicans who voted for the commission are financially bound to Pelosi? She apparently attempts to hold the power over a few heads.
And numerous Trump haters I know. There’s no cure for TDS. But if the truth be known they’re missing him desperately, as is the sane world.
THere is a cure.. A firing squad!
All I can say if Trump is living rent free in the head of acosta, he has massive accommodations, acosta’s head is empty of everything else.
I think he dreams about him and wakes up stuck to the sheets.
Nancy blubbered that Republicans voting against the commission are afraid of the truth. Total Nancy Bull. Nancy and her DNC Crime Syndicate are the ones afraid of the truth that’s why they want another sham investigation to whitewash over what really happened, that the DNC Crime Syndicate planned the whole event weeks in advance with their co-conspirators in Antifa and BLM. My take.
Acosta is nothing but an egotistical little punk. He has no relevance whatsoever and that is driving him nuttier than he was to start with.
The communist news network is the only place that would let him hang around. He’s likely cleaning the latrines at CNN.
Jim, you spineless little punk, your day will come. You are all mouth and no guts. Maybe someday I’ll run into you on the street. We could have a discussion.
Jim who??
Time for Jim to come out of the closet.
It is not Trump but a legion of demons living in Acosta’s head.