{"id":537709,"date":"2021-05-23T12:50:27","date_gmt":"2021-05-23T16:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=537709"},"modified":"2021-05-23T12:50:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-23T16:50:28","slug":"jim-acosta-mocks-trump-as-mussolini-of-mar-a-lago-claims-gop-fears-jan-6-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jim-acosta-mocks-trump-as-mussolini-of-mar-a-lago-claims-gop-fears-jan-6-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Acosta Mocks Trump As \u2018Mussolini Of Mar-A-Lago,\u2019 Claims GOP Fears Jan. 6 Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjim-acosta-mocks-trump-as-mussolini-of-mar-a-lago-claims-gop-fears-jan-6-commission%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=537709&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-23-at-10.48.48-AM-e1621787994433.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"47.593984962406\">\n<p>CNN\u2019s Jim Acosta claimed Saturday that Republicans feared a potential Jan. 6 Commission, saying that the party\u2019s leadership was running scared and referring to former President Donald Trump as \u201cMussolini of Mar-a-Lago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/12\/31\/joe-concha-jim-acosta-should-work-biden-administration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Acosta<\/a> argued that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, both of whom were critical of Trump in the days after the Capitol riot, had both said they would not support the commission to investigate what had happened \u2014 and suggested that decision was being driven by fear of one key question.<strong> <a class=\"text-black\" href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/04\/post-trump-stress-disorder-jim-acosta-media-coverage\/\">(RELATED: \u2018We\u2019re All Dealing With Post Trump Stress Disorder\u2019: Jim Acosta Weighs In On Media Coverage After Trump)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The question <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/06\/19\/kayleigh-mcenany-chastises-cnns-acosta\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Acosta<\/a> said Republicans did not want to answer was whether or not members of the party had been in contact with the rioters who ultimately breached the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSee how they run,\u201d Acosta said, showing a video of McCarthy ending a press conference after saying that he did not believe any House Republicans had been in contact with protesters in real time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody have a nice day,\u201d McCarthy said as reporters continued to press him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s as if the get-away car was parked just down the street,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/07\/15\/kool-aid-drinkers-jim-acosta-adults-left-white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Acosta<\/a> continued, pivoting to address <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/19\/mitch-mcconnell-opposes-january-6-commission-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">McConnell\u2019s<\/a> decision not to support the commission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou didn\u2019t know he could move so fast, did you? Like a ninja. Now the bill to create a bipartisan 9\/11-style commission may be doomed in the Senate,\u201d Acosta added. \u201cBut McConnell also voted to acquit Trump. Not exactly a profile in courage. More like cowardice and calculation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Acosta went on to suggest that Republican leaders might have pivoted in deference to Trump in the hopes that he would help them retake control of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRepublican leaders have made the decision to put next year\u2019s mid-term election ahead of the good of the country and that Trump is the key to winning back control of Congress,\u201d he claimed. \u201cYou remember the Mussolini of Mar-a-Lago writing in his blog, which has become his online diary \u2026 Trump demanded Republican leaders shut down this commission, saying, \u2018Hopefully Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy are listening.\u2019 Are they listening? Like he pressed his button for another Diet Coke.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN\u2019s Jim Acosta claimed Saturday that Republicans feared a potential Jan. 6 Commission, saying that the party\u2019s leadership was running scared and referring to former President Donald Trump &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312743,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-23-at-10.48.48-AM-e1621787994433.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Jim Acosta Mocks Trump As \u2018Mussolini Of Mar-A-Lago,\u2019 Claims GOP Fears Jan. 6 Commission","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-23-at-10.48.48-AM-e1621787994433.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Jim Acosta Mocks Trump As \u2018Mussolini Of Mar-A-Lago,\u2019 Claims GOP Fears Jan. 6 Commission","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}