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Jim Acosta Mocks Trump’s Secret Doc Excuses: ‘There Was An Earthquake, A Flood, Locusts!’

CNN reporter Jim Acosta hilariously mocked former president Donald Trump’s endless excuses about why he had thousands of classified and top secret documents at his Mar-a-Lago golf club which was raided on Monday by the FBI when they served a search warrant amid suspicion that the ex-president has violated the Espionage Act.

Speaking with CNN legal analyst Elie Honig, Acosta referenced and then quoted a scene from the 1980 film “The Blues Brothers” in which the late Jim Belushi implores Carrie Fisher not to kill him:

“Oh, please don’t kill us! Please, please don’t kill us. You know I love you, baby. I wouldn’t leave you! It wasn’t my fault! … I ran out of gas! I got a flat tire! I didn’t have change for cab fare! I lost my tux at the cleaners! I locked my keys in the car! An old friend came in from out of town! Someone stole my car! There was an earthquake! A terrible flood! Locusts! IT WASN’T MY FAULT, I SWEAR TO GOD!”

Acosta then added:

“We’ve heard multiple excuses. First, it was the FBI planted evidence. Then Trump claimed it was all declassified. That they didn’t need to seize anything. They could have had it anytime they wanted. I think today he is saying some of the stuff is privileged, attorney/client material.”

Honig quickly obliterated all of Trump’s bogus excuses:

“The declassification argument: It is possible President Trump declassified some of the documents before he left the White House. You would expect there would be some record, some evidence, some paper trail or witness to support it. All we’ve seen is statements, yes, we declassified. It remains to be seen. Also, important to note, of the three laws that DOJ listed on their search warrant documents that justified the search, none have anything to do with whether these documents were adequately classified or declassified.”

Trump has also claimed that the FBI and Justice Department could have simply requested the documents, but as Honig noted, they tried that:

“They did ask. The National Archives asked and only got some of the documents. DOJ asked. They tried to subpoena. That’s the easy way. They still didn’t get all the documents. That defense holds no water.”

The failed former president also claimed that the FBI broke into Mar-a-Lago, which led Honig to respond:

“This was not a break-in. We’ve seen the paperwork. DOJ did the same paperwork I’ve done many times and a judge signed off this is a lawfully authorized search warrant. It should not be called a break-in.”

Acosta interjected:

“I can’t believe that he got that one wrong, Elie. Can you break down the Espionage Act for us? What are we talking about here? Some people may not understand what the possibilities are with that.”

Honig responded:

“The Espionage Act sounds dramatic and there are portions that bring to mind cinematic cloak and dagger type of things. The limited subsection that’s alleged in the papers relates to mishandling of defense information. It essentially makes it a crime to mishandle, to take, and to transmit national security information if you know or have a reason to know that dissemination of that information could be harmful to U.S. national security interests. It’s not nearly James Bond stuff but it’s still vital, how we store and protect our national secrets.”

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WATCH: Conservative CNN Panelist Gets Shut Down For Saying ‘Both Sides’ Responsible For January 6th

A Republican consultant who worked for the George W. Bush campaign got his head handed to him Friday during a panel discussion on the January 6 hearings and who is ultimately blame for what took place on that fateful day.

Scott Jennings, who has also served as an adviser to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) agreed that failed, one-term former president Donald Trump should not be allowed to run for office again, but then suggested Democrats also had culpability in the Capitol riots:

“I don’t think people who have lost all faith in institutions fully exist on the right. it is clearly also existing on the left, and I know right now, I mean, for as much as Donald Trump’s people want to smash Congress and do what they want to do on January 6th, there are people right now who would, I’m sure would love to do that to the United States Supreme Court and urging Joe Biden to bypass the Supreme Court and bypass Congress and essentially rule by executive –“

Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General Eliott Williams cut Jennings off to interject:

“I don’t think it is a fair argument to sort of both sides insurrection.”

Jennings attempted to recover:

“You think it is not a fair argument to point out that someone tried to go kill Brett Kavanaugh or threatened to burn down the Supreme Court? These people have the same –“

But Juliette Kayyem, who worked in the Department of Homeland Security, was having none of Jennings or his bullshit:

“That wasn’t led by Biden, that wasn’t led by Biden. Come on!”

Jennings:

“I’m not — I’m not saying it was led by Biden. They coddled it.”

Once more, Kayyem was quick to slam Jennings:

“Whatever you believe, Scott, about what the Democrats are doing, just give us a break here on this one, that Trump actually directed the violence — you don’t think he directed the violence?”

Jennings was then forced to admit that Trump was the instigator of the horror on Jan. 6:

“Yes, of course, I do. I said it many times, but I’m telling you David’s [Axelrod] is correct, there is a whole group of Americans who have given up on our process and institutions and they don’t fully exist on the right, which I think you think they do, but I don’t believe they do. “

But people on the left didn’t storm the Capitol or try to overturn an election. That was the Trump acolytes, led by their orange lord and savior. And that fact will never change.

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Appeals Court Slaps Down Devin Nunes For Filing Frivolous $435 Million Lawsuit Against CNN

A federal appeals court dealt a major slapdown to former Republican Congressman Devin Nunes, refusing to revive his $435 million defamation lawsuit against CNN and dismissing the the suit with prejudice.

According to Reuters:

In a 2-1 decision on Thursday, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said Nunes failed to seek a correction fast enough, or show he deserved “special damages” for economic loss.

Circuit Judge William Nardini said the trial judge “did not err” in finding that Nunes did not comply with applicable California law governing retractions, and thus his $435 million lawsuit should be dismissed with prejudice.

Nunes filed the lawsuit in response to an article which stated that Lev Parnas, a former associate of Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani would testify under oath to Congress that the California congressman met with a former Ukrainian prosecutor in 2018 for the purpose of “digging up dirt” on Joe Biden.

CNN drew Nunes’ ire due to a report on the network:

The former Republican congressman also objected to a broadcast of CNN’s “Cuomo Prime Time,” where the reporter and host Chris Cuomo discussed his alleged role in “looking for dirt” on Biden and his son Hunter.

Nunes denied the accusations, said his reputation was damaged, and branded CNN “the mother of fake news.”

Ironically, all three of the judges on the Manhattan appeals court were appointed by Trump during his failed term as president.

Nunes is known for being extremely litigious, but he never wins, which makes you wonder why he wastes so much money taking losing issues to court in the first place.

Earlier this month, an appeals court refused to revive a $250 million lawsuit Nunes filed against the Washington Post, ruling he had “failed to plausibly allege a claim of defamation.”

Nunes resigned from Congress on January 1, 2022 to become chief executive officer of the Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), which launched the social media site Truth Social. It is widely considered to be a massive failure.

 

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Donald Trump Media in America

Jake Tapper Rips Trump A New One After The Donald Mocks CNN’s Ratings

Now that he no longer has a Twitter or Facebook account, failed, one-term former President Donald Trump has been relegated to issuing press releases that feel like something that belongs back in the Nixon administration.

The good news, however, is that even though Donnie has no social media accounts, he still manages to get his rants out for us to laugh at and for others to obliterate online, where the ex-president remains locked out.

One thing hasn’t changed when it comes to Trump’s public pronouncements: They’re half-baked and filled with lies, much like his four years in office were.

Such is the case with an attempted cheap shot at CNN and other media outlets who refuse to bow before the Donald:

Sorry, Don, but the news isn’t “boring” since you left D.C. Instead, it’s sane and doesn’t leave us all terrified of whether or not we’re going to wake up in an American version of Nazi Germany. Excuse the hell out of us for preferring competency and compassion to idiocy and hatred.

But the best part of Trump’s attempt at snark is the response he received from CNN’s Jake Tapper, who posted this:

And then Tapper used Trump’s least favorite thing in the world, facts, to completely humiliate Dotard Don:

#1 is something Trump will never be again. It is, however, one of two reasons he has to wear a diaper.

 

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Donald Trump

CNN’s Jim Acosta Just Said Exactly What Needed To Be Said About The Failed, One-Term Donald Trump

Failed, one-term former President Donald Trump has always hated CNN and Jim Acosta, who was White House correspondent for the network during the Trump administration. That’s probably because Acosta wasn’t afraid to ask tough questions and CNN didn’t bow down to King Donald the way Fox News did during his four years in office.

Things got so contentious between Trump and Acosta at one point that the former president banned him from the White House altogether, as CNBC reported at the time:

“The White House has suspended the press pass of CNN correspondent Jim Acosta after he and President Donald Trump had a heated confrontation during a news conference.

“They began sparring Wednesday after Acosta asked Trump about the caravan of migrants heading from Latin America to the southern U.S. border. When Acosta tried to follow up with another question, Trump said, ‘That’s enough!’ and a female White House aide unsuccessfully tried to grab the microphone from Acosta.”

Now, however, Acosta has the upper hand, and he used it to verbally slap down Trump for his pathetic attempt at a comeback, with the former president speaking at a Republican meeting in Greeneville, North Carolina on Saturday evening.

Acosta was hosting a news program on CNN prior to Trump’s speech when he perfectly nailed exactly what was taking place including comments Trump made this week that he’d be installed as president as soon as this August. To that, Acosta remarked:

“If Trump really believes he will be back in the White House this August, he should get help. You are not well, sir.”

But that was far from all Acosta had to say, adding:

“Trump’s life is like a country music song. He’s lost the House, he’s lost the Senate, he’s lost the White House, website. If he had a dog, the dog would leave him too.”

Game, set, and match, Jim Acosta.