Trump henchman is ‘cuckoo for cocoa puffs’ and out for revenge: Jim Acosta

On Wednesday during an appearance on MSNOW, former CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta warned that President Donald Trump’s newly confirmed “henchman” is going to be relentless in pushing some of the most “disgraceful” aspects of his agenda. Acosta was on a panel alongside MSNOW host Alicia Menendez and contributor Michael Steele to discuss Republican senators’ recent capitulation to Trump, in which they voted to confirm Attorney General Todd Blanche regardless of his willingness to maintain the president’s “incredibly politically toxic” slush fund for J6 rioters.

According to Steele, who happens to be the former Chair of the Republican National Committee, conservative senators are well aware that Blanche’s assurances that the fund would be killed are false because “there is no document with Donald Trump's signature on it. That's why this is still alive. That's why all these Republicans out here know that this thing is still in play, in the dirty little corners and secrets of Capitol Hill and in the Republican caucus." He added, “The reality of it is they have no problem with this because this is what their base wants. This is what Donald Trump wants. That's how Donald Trump keeps the base on the hook: 'Here's a little bit of largesse from the government for you. Stick with me. I'm going to get you rich. Everybody else is going to pay for your crimes.’”

Here Acosta joked that he felt like he’s “channeling Miracle Max from the Princess Bride when he said, it's only mostly dead. I think that's the case of the weaponization fund. Until Donald Trump says it's dead, it is not dead. And Donald Trump has been asked about this repeatedly, and he has said that he wants this weaponization fund and that he believes that the January 6th criminals — rioters and insurrectionists who beat up cops and desecrated the Capitol — deserve taxpayer money. Democrats should be running on this until the cows come home. It is absolutely disgraceful.”

Acosta went on to warn that the situation is going to continue to get worse, asserting, “People need to understand what a dangerous moment that we're moving into as a country, because Todd Blanche has been confirmed as the permanent attorney general. Democrats could take control of the House and the Senate and so on, but you still have Donald Trump's personal attorney acting as a henchman in charge of the Justice Department for the next two years, carrying out these political attacks on all sorts of perceived political enemies of Donald Trump. They want to go after David Hearn again and charge him with a misdemeanor for the Reflecting Pool case. I mean, this Justice Department is going to be cuckoo for cocoa puffs until early 2029. There's just no question about it. And every time Todd Blanche opens his mouth, you have to assume that the opposite is true.”

“Between the storylines on the Epstein files, the economy, and this,” noted Steele, “Democrats have a plethora of opportunities to not just box Republicans in the corner, but to make them eat the words that they're saying and that they don’t say when it comes to those three issues.”

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