Gambling With Lives: Acosta Claims Trump Had ‘Dangerous Night at the Casino’

Nicholas Fondacaro | January 8, 2020
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In the aftermath of the Iranian missile attack against two U.S. bases in Iraq Tuesday evening, it appeared as though there were no U.S. casualties and both President Trump and Iranian officials were ready to deescalate the situation. But CNN was not having it. During an appearance on CNN Tonight, chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta insisted that Trump was backed into a corner, and could do nothing but push the United States closer to a major conflict with Iran. He even suggested Trump was gambling with the lives of U.S. troops.

After getting teed up by host Don Lemon, Acosta chided Trump’s calm and reassuring tweet to the American people after the attack. “Yeah, ‘all is well’ is the message from the President. I doubt that there are very many people in the nation’s capital who agree with that assessment. All is not well tonight,” he huffed.

Effectively gaslighting CNN’s viewers by ignoring the fact that it was Iran who began this latest back and forth after they killed an American contractor and assaulted our embassy in Baghdad, the bitter reporter asserted it was Trump who had “cranked [the temperature] all the way up and he’s been doing this for several days now.

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