Tuesday was the end of an era with Jim Acosta’s 18 years at CNN coming to an end with the showboater choosing to avoid a demotion to weekdays at midnight Eastern and jumping ship with a cartoonish commentary about not “bow[ing] down to a dictator” and not “giv[ing] into the lies.” In the roughly minutes before that, Acosta was unapologetically partisan and went full Homer Simpson dropping a match on the bridge while driving away in a convertible.
Acosta’s doomsday talk came from the onset in the teases:
Power grab. President Trump’s administration is pausing all federal grants and loans, sending shock waves of confusion throughout the government. Programs that are possibly in jeopardy? Federal assistance for needy families. Plus Trump’s retribution. Dozens of officials who worked on criminal investigations that the president now…
