JAG Convicts Jim Acosta of Treason; Will Hang for Crimes

JAG Convicts Jim Acosta of Treason; Will Hang for Crimes
By Michael Baxter -March 17, 2025

The United States Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps and Office of Military Commissions at Camp Blaz, Guam, convicted former CNN anchor Jim Acosta of aiding and abetting the enemy, seditious conspiracy, and treason Friday afternoon.

Acosta is among myriad Deep State media personalities and COVID-19 propagandists held prisoner at the 4,000-acre, $8.6 billion Marine Corps base.

As reported previously, US Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID) agents nabbed Acosta near his Atlanta estate on January 28, a day before CNN announced his departure and a CGI facsimile of Acosta conducted a farewell broadcast. Per our source, the fiend was already behind bars when the show aired.

On February 5, JAG and President Trump’s rejuvenated Department of Justice declared Acosta an enemy combatant, froze his assets, and seized his bank accounts, effectively denying him the ability to hire counsel. One JAG source told RRN that Acosta had telephoned CNN General Counsel David Vigilante, seeking gratis representation, but the lawyer rejected him, saying that Acosta had “fucked up” and that neither he nor CNN would give aid.

“Eighteen years of loyalty, and you’re screwing me. Is that what you’re telling me? You’re screwing me over after all I gave to the network,” Acosta had shrieked into the phone—but Vigilante had disconnected the call.

“They excommunicated him, persona non gratis. He probably never felt so underappreciated. Remarkably, he requested legal help from us. Most Deep Staters, if they talk at all, which is damn rare, prefer to stand for themselves,” our source said.

At Friday’s tribunal, however, the court-appointed defense lawyer seemed more intent on convicting than defending his client. From the moment he, a somewhat aged 2nd lieutenant, opened his mouth, he implored Acosta, sitting beside him at the defense table, to change his plea to “guilty” and throw himself on the court’s mercy.

Acosta was shaking his head. “I still don’t understand how these charges pertain to me,” he said.

“You should concede the charges and beg for leniency,” the lieutenant said. “The officers judging you have probably already reached a verdict and found you guilty. They just want to hear how that guilt was proven,” he added insightfully.

Acosta asked whether the lawyer had ever won a case.

“Winning isn’t everything,” the lieutenant answered. “If I can’t defend you, I can help you accept the inevitable with equanimity.”

Their conversation halted abruptly as Lead Special Trial Counsel Rear Adm. Johnathon Stephens admonished the lieutenant for noisily disrupting the court.

“You’ve had this case a month. Aren’t you raising concerns you and the defendant should’ve resolved before today?” asked the Admiral.

The lieutenant grinned sheepishly. “My sincerest apologies, Admiral, Your Honor, and might I add, it’s a pleasure to stand before you today, but my client, Mr. Jim Acosta, has been relentlessly uncooperative. He has nothing but contempt for these proceedings and demands you declare a mistrial.”

“Demand denied,” the Admiral snapped.

He got to the meat of the matter. He showed the 3-officer panel copies of Acosta’s banking records for 2020 and 2021, which held numerous suspicious transactions, including a $2.1 million wire transfer from the US Treasury Department on June 15, 2021.

“We assert, and can prove, that the defendant frequently received payouts such as this one from the Biden regime to attack President Trump and to spread COVID-19 and pro-vaccine propaganda,” he told the panel.

“I must, on my client’s behalf, object, Admiral. Mr. Acosta’s actions may’ve been foolish, but everyone, all across the world, is paid for their work. If what those banking papers say is true, how can this tribunal interpret the payments as anything other than supplementary income? Did Mr. Acosta occasionally go too far casting aspersions? Perhaps he did. But does he also not have the same constitutional right to free speech as all citizens?”

Admiral Stephens overruled the objection, saying Acosta’s innate, immutable hatred of Donald Trump was foundational to understanding his criminality.

Acosta, sitting silently, was rolling his eyes.

Appearing remotely via a video call, Devin McDermitt, a female production assistant at CNN from 2019-2022, testified she had heard Acosta gloat about getting “paid in full” to defame the President and recommend that CNN viewers get vaccinations and booster shots.

“How exactly did you hear the defendant say this?” said the Admiral.

“I was working in the office next to his. His door was open. I could hear him talking on the phone, to whom I do not know. He said, ‘Biden paid me in full for doing what I would’ve done for free.’ He mentioned, laughing, he got government money to lie about Donald Trump, mock alternative COVID-19 remedies like ivermectin, dedicate news segments to discrediting the lab leak theory, and promote vaccinations,” Ms. McDermitt said.

Admiral Stephens asked the lieutenant if he had any questions for the witness.

“Nothing comes to mind,” the lieutenant said.

Having excused the witness, the Admiral noted that Acosta, a professional purveyor of COVID-19 and vaccine propaganda, was himself unvaccinated, proven by blood tests performed by medical staff following his arrest.

“We’ve seen this time and time again—media people and Deep State civil servants and politicians touting vaccines but not being vaccinated. If Defendant Acosta, detainee Acosta, believed in vaccines, why wouldn’t he get one? We cannot begin to fathom how many people, on his advice, were irreparably maimed, or died, because they took medical advice from a newscaster. No one has infringed his First Amendment. However, media personalities must be held to a higher standard than the average Joe posting on Facebook. He took bribes to spread false information. And the lies he told not only damaged a nation and defamed a sitting president but also cost lives. This is treason and seditious conspiracy,” Admiral Stephens told the panelists.

“Your Honor, Admiral Stephens, shouldn’t the Office of Military Commissions investigate the possibility that Mr. Acosta’s payments were tax refunds and not some secretive evil payout? I admit it’s a longshot, but in the name of justi—”

“—a grand total of $42.3 million in tax refunds over two years? CNN paid him $2 million a year. According to his tax records, which we have, with gratitude to President Trump overhauling the IRS, Defendant Acosta never got a refund while working at CNN,” Admiral Stephens interjected.

“I said it was a longshot, Your Honor,” the lieutenant said.

To Acosta he said, “I did my best.”

The highest-ranking panelist, a Marine Corps lieutenant colonel, said he and his colleagues had reached a verdict: Acosta is guilty on all charges. He said Acosta’s dalliance with the Biden regime called for maximum punishment.

“Very well,” the Admiral said. “For his crimes, the defendant will hang on March 21.”

A perspiring Acosta stared at the lieutenant. “Won’t you appeal?”

“This is a military tribunal; no appeals,” the lieutenant said.

We will post a follow-up on March 21.

We should hear from GITMO sources later today on Pence’s hanging.

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