Former CNN anchor Jim Acosta lashed out on Wednesday to the secretary of the White House Pers Secretary Karoline Leavitt and compared her to a child who was a 'bad liar'.
Acosta described the former Trump press secretaries Sean Spicer and Sarah Huckabee Sanders as part of an 'All-Star Team of Liars' during an interview on the left-wing Meidastouch-Podcast and said that Leavitt only wanted to be the way she.
He became more patronizing when he spoke about Leavitt, the youngest press secretary of the White House once to take the job.
“She might be on the couch now, but if she keeps working hard, does her homework, she might get it into the team,” he said.
Acosta suggested that Leavitt should be seen on Saturday Night Live, because she was such a “bad liar.”
“The skit writes itself,” he continued and added, “it's a sad and sorry state of affairs.”
The former CNN -Gastheer, who was a combative reporter during the first term of President Trump, left the network after Trump was re -elected and launched his own media show to Substack.
Acosta claimed that Trump's press secretaries only acted for Trump as 'an audience of one' and that it was 'all lies'.
Jim Acosta gives his opinion about Pers Secretary Karoline Leavitt of the White House
White House Pers Secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks to reporters in the White House,
“They are such bad liars,” he continued and compare Leavitt with a child who was bad in lying.
“Everyone has children there when your child tells you Aa, a long story and you just look at them, okay, Johnny, sure, yes, I believe you,” he said. “And, and you just walk away and say: what that is that child, you know, don't tell the truth.”
The Meidastouch -Podcast is a left -wing political podcast that has become a prominent place for Trump -Since he won re -election.
Acosta was immediately hit by criticism from fans of Leavitt, who responded to his partisan assessment of Leavitt and spotted him for releasing CNN
'Acosta lost everything at CNN because the network agreed with people. He is not a journalist, he is an activist, “wrote Brandon Johnson on X.
“Acosta, you currently have less than zero credibility,” wrote Barbara Hodge.
'Oh Jim is a boob that will never stop whining. He has a bad thing of TDS, “wrote Kate Johnson on X, referring to” Trump Derangement Syndrome. ”
“Jim Acosta? Are you joking? Propaganda, “wrote Kathryn Herrick on X.
The press conference of the White House by press secretary Karoline Leavitt takes place in Washington, DC,
White House Pers Secretary Karoline Leavitt walks after he has spoken with the media in the White House
Acosta also reprimanded his former colleagues in the press room of the White House for no longer doing it to push back the Trump government to prohibit associated press reporters to travel with the president at Air Force One or in events in the To leave Oval Office.
The outlet was banned after the news organization said that they would not recognize Trump's decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.
“I think the press should do a little more,” he said. That is a heavy note to crack … It is a bit like hats of cats trying to have everyone trying to act in the press corps in a uniform way, “he said.
Acosta advised the Associated Press to sue the administration for access.
“I just don't think it's something that should be, you know, just have to be tolerated right now,” he said.
CNN Witte Huis Correspondent Jim Acosta
Jim Acosta from CNN speaks with journalists at the North Lawn
Acosta also complained that the Trump administration gave more access to conservative journalists, “she described as” propaganda stores and right -wing hacks “that” prospective -autocrat “cities.
He described Trump's action to rename the Gulf of Mexico in the top five 'stupidest things' that the president had done and applauded the Associated Press because he was 'serious journalists' by refusing to come along.
'I am worried that it is a test case. I, I am worried that if they get away with this, they will do it for other news organizations, other journalists, and then it is a slippery slope from there, “he concluded.
