Womp, Womp! CNN's Fake News Jim Acosta, Panel Melt Down Over Judge Ripping Fani Willis

While the first hour of CNN’s Friday morning coverage on Fulton County, Georgia Judge Scott McAfee’s ruling allowing District Attorney Fani Willis to remain on the 2020 election case against Donald Trump and his 18 co-defendants was fairly restrained, the same couldn’t be said about the second hour as Fake News Jim Acosta arrived for his hour of CNN Newsroom. Between Acosta and his not-so-merry band of fellow leftist analysts and journalists, CNN viewers were treated to a meltdown about how Willis and special prosecutor Nathan Wade’s romantic relationship was proof of Donald Trump “sow[ing] distrust in the criminal justice system” and “played the system like a fiddle” and that even discussion of their affair was “sickening.” Chief legal affairs correspondent Paula Reid had that first zinger, claiming this case was Trump “sow[ing] distrust in the criminal justice system” via…McAfee? Wait, so Wade and Willis having an inappropriate relationship is somehow Trump’s fault?

Shortly after Reid seemed to suggest Willis needed to keep the case because “trust in the judicial system” is “at stake”, chief legal analyst Laura Coates kvetched that McAfee handed Team Trump “ammunition to try to attack her credibility and taint…the jury pool”. However, as she repeatedly tried to do, she sought to cheer viewers up by reminding them Trump could still be prosecuted. Acosta then lambasted McAfee ripping Wade and Willis’s lack of ethics as having “having to do with” the Trump case because he’s the one who’s supposed to be “on trial”. Legal analyst Elliot Williams backed up him, arguing McAfee was out of line and “taking a pot shot” at the former lovers in a ruling that didn’t pan out as Trump and his co-defendants had hoped. In other words, Williams was comparing McAfee to former Biden Special Counsel Robert Hur.

Acosta and Trump 2024 correspondent Kristen Holmes proceeded to bellyache about how Trump will “take advantage of” and “run wild with this” and his supporters will “eat this up”.

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