Even by his own standards, former CNN anchor turned Substack podcaster Jim Acosta displayed a stunning amount of hypocrisy on Tuesday when it comes to conspiracy theories about the 2020 and 2024 presidential elections. On 2020, Acosta let former CNN colleague Michael Fanone go on a profanity-laden rant against Speaker Mike Johnson and fellow Republicans while he labeled actress Rosie O’Donnell an “international treasure” immediately after she spread conspiracy theories about 2024.
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Later in the show, O’Donnell called in from Dublin, Ireland, and Acosta again opened the floor, “There’s a reason why this independent media thing is taking off. There’s a reason why things like Substack, YouTube are taking off and why you were taking off, Rosie.”
O’Donnell then put on her tinfoil hat, “Yes. Well, you know, all people want now after all the lies we’ve been told from Trump four years ago, and we were just getting out of the depression of that, and then he comes back, I believe unfairly. I believe Elon Musk did something. I believe no one has ever won every swing state. I believe the down ballot proof. I believe that he did not win this election because I was looking at how many people Kamala Harris had, and I just don’t believe it, and my friends say you have to believe it, but I don’t.”
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