Jim Acosta Roasts Leavitt As Champion Liar — First 'Rat' To Jump Trump's Sinking Ship

'The Tom Brady Of Lying'

Jim Acosta greeted the news of Karoline Leavitt’s exit with a mixture of mockery, skepticism, and political tea leaf reading — predicting an exodus of rats jumping ship before the midterms.

As we covered in this morning’s JAMM, Donald Trump and Leavitt announced her departure as press secretary in a pair of lovey-dovey social media posts on Wednesday afternoon.

Speculation abounds that the departure has something to do with the Decoy Force One debacle, either because Leavitt didn’t make it onto the Chicken Force One plane or she mouthed off about it to the wrong person.

Whatever the case, Acosta took a few minutes out of his trip to the Big Apple to memorialize Leavitt’s tenure, and to suggest that other Trump henchpersons might start looking for the emergency exits as the midterms and a potential Democratic gavel approach.

Here’s a taste.

JIM ACOSTA: Can we light a candle for Karoline Leavitt? Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, she says, apparently Donald Trump said she’s leaving, that she’s resigning as White House Press Secretary. I don’t know, was Karoline given a choice in this? Maybe she was given a chance. Maybe she’s doing this on her own volition…

As I’ve said from the very beginning, working for Donald Trump is sort of like performing in the lie Olympics, the bullshit Olympics. You really gotta go for the gold if you’re gonna be held in high regard in Trump world…

…Kayleigh McEnany, she was going for the gold in the lie Olympics. And I thought coming into this second term when they announced Karoline Laevitt as the new White House press secretary, I thought, you know, I don’t know, is she ready for prime time? She’s going to have to do those special exercises that they do inside the Trump White House to really hone their skills at lying to the American people.

But by golly she put in the work! And she has, she has shown some results. She is, I think by far the biggest and most effective and most shameless liar that Donald Trump has ever had as White House press secretary…

Karoline Leavitt is sort of, and I don’t want to use an Olympic athlete’s name to describe somebody of this nature because then it’s sort of negatively associating somebody with that. But I do think that Karoline Leovitt has really shown herself to be, I’ll use Tom Bradys; I don’t like Tom Brady. She’s sort of the Tom Brady of, she’s the GOAT…

It is a very interesting indication of where things are going. It’s a very interesting, and we’re 83 days from the midterm elections. And maybe the rats are starting to jump ship. Maybe they’re starting to see what is coming this November and the size of the tidal wave that is building at this point, and they want to jump off this ship as quickly as possible before they get tossed around at sea, like Matt Damon in the Odyssey or something….

Light a candle for Karoline Leavitt tonight, now the outgoing White House press secretary. She’ll probably get to keep her pension somehow. For Christ’s sake, that should not be legal, but somehow she will keep that federal employee pension.

But we wish Karoline Leavitt all the best as she rides off to the sunset of former White House Press Secretaries.

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