Frequently Trump critic Jim Acosta faced a backlash after blowing up Caroline Leavitt. This compared the youngest White House press secretary in history to “telling you a tall story.”
Wednesday, interviewed Left-leaning podcast Meidas Touchthe former CNN anchor torched the latest spokesman.
“she [Leavitt] Maybe they'll just ride the Trump All-Star team liars,” Acosta said. “She may be on the bench right now, but if she continues to work hard, if she is doing her homework, she may just make it for the team.”
“It's a bit… when your child tells you a tall story, and you're just looking at them as “It's okay, certainly, yeah, I believe in you,” He continued, “And you just walked away and 'What a god, the child hasn't told me the truth.”
Leavitt gave her first briefing as a press secretary from the White House later last month.
At 27, she is the youngest person to work in this role.
Before Leavitt, the youngest White House spokesman was 29-year-old Ronald Ziegler during the Nixon administration.
Trump supporters quickly condemned Acosta's attack on Levitt on social media, accusing journalists of hypocrisy.
“There's zero reliability at this point,” one critic wrote in X's post.
“Jim is just jealous and hurts that a young woman is far smarter and far more relevant than his washed old lie ass!” Another user wrote to X .
Some users accused Acosta of lying throughout his career, saying, “Jim Acosta calls someone a liar… he's rich now.”
Other critics took a jab at Acosta and left him last month after CNN reportedly tried to get him to exile on a graveyard shift.
“What do you mean by a former semi-journalist who has been unemployed?” said one user from X.
Another wrote:
Acosta hinted that Leavitt was worse than Trump's first-term reporter secretary.
“It's hard to see someone see Sean Spicer in Outspicer, or Sarah Huckabee Sanders in Huckabee, but Caroline Leavitt, she's running it,” Acosta said.
The former CNN host then nodded to Melissa McCarthy's Sean Spicer character on Saturday Night Live.
“Skit is writing himself, so you have to think that something like that is in the work,” he said of the Leavitt impersonator, who could be a comedy sketch show. “They are very bad liars.”
Acosta denounced President Trump, accusing him of being “addicted” when he saw himself on television and forced his staff to lie to the press.
It's a “sad and sorry situation,” Acosta said. “Another way, they work in Overdrive, so I feel very sorry for the fact checker.”
