Jim Acosta is back at it — sounding the alarm about Donald Trump, this time on Charlie Sykes’ podcast.
And you’re not going to believe this one: the former CNN host is warning that Trump’s accusation of “treason” against Barack Obama could — wait for it — “endanger [Obama’s] life.”
Acosta told Sykes that Trump’s remarks during a Tuesday Oval Office presser were “highly dangerous,” adding: “He knows full well when he puts that kind of content out in the atmosphere, especially with his fringe base, that he might potentially be putting the life of the former president in danger when he engages in that kind of rhetoric.”
Not content with just ringing the panic bell, Acosta compared Trump’s rhetoric to “weapons of mass destruction” — yes, he actually said that — claiming Trump is “doing violence to the truth in this country.”
So let’s get this straight: Trump calling out Obama for treason — after DNI Tulsi Gabbard declassified files claiming “overwhelming evidence” that Obama’s team “manufactured and politicized intelligence” post-2016 — is supposedly putting Obama in mortal danger.
But here’s where it gets rich. Acosta, who’s suddenly concerned about dangerous rhetoric, didn’t seem too worried about his own language back in April when he told Mediaite that Trump “poses a threat to American democracy” and is “in command of an extremist movement.”
Three months later, someone literally tried to assassinate Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania — shooting him in the ear — and he survived only by inches. Then came another attempt in September.
Oh, and the guy behind the second attempt? Ryan Wesley Routh — who, according to federal records, donated to Democrats in Hawaii — wrote in April 2024 that “DEMOCRACY is on the ballot” and accused Trump of trying to “make Americans slaves again.” That kind of rhetoric sound familiar?
This is the hypocrisy on display: Acosta can brand Trump as a dictator, an existential threat, the head of an “extremist movement,” and somehow that’s just “truth-telling journalism.” But Trump lobs an accusation — in response to a declassified report, no less — and suddenly, Acosta’s worried someone might take him literally and go after Obama.
