‘Crock Of Shit!’ Jim Acosta Goes OFF On CBS ‘Surrender’ To Trump In Blistering Rant

Jim Acosta torched Paramount and CBS for their “surrender” to President Donald Trump with a legal settlement, calling it a “crock of shit” and a “a shameful bribe to the president.”

Paramount announced Tuesday that they will pay Trump $16 million to settle what most experts consider to be a meritless lawsuit over a 2024 60 Minutes interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris.

Acosta has a unique point of view on the issue, having fought and won in court when Trump’s White House took away his press credentials, as well as having worked at CBS News early in his career.

In blistering commentary on Wednesday’s edition of The Jim Acosta Show and in his Substack newsletter, Acosta let loose on Trump, Paramount, and other media outlets who have “bent the knee” to Trump:

Paramount says its payment includes Mr. Trump’s legal fees and costs, and that the money, minus the legal fees, will be paid to Trump’s future presidential library.

I mean, that in and of itself, that, in and of itself… comes across as a bright red, lava red warning sign to Paramount to not pay this ransom, to not pay this bribe.

And yet they paid it anyway. They did exactly what ABC did, exactly what Disney did in settling their bullshit lawsuit. They paid millions of dollars to the Trump Presidential Library, which, by the way, Has anybody thought this through?

What is that presidential library going to be like? Are they going to have the January 6th wing of the Trump presidential library where they reenact the attack on the Capitol on January 6? I mean, think about some of the, are they going have an Alligator Alcatraz wing of the trump presidential library? I mean what, it’s a crock of shit!

And so to Paramount, what you have done is just in bending the knee to Donald Trump as you have encouraged the bad behavior to continue. He is obviously going to file, and the CBS lawsuit, the lawsuit against CBS and 60 Minutes was complete horse shit.

And all you have done, Paramount, is encourage Donald Trump to do this again. He’s going to do to this to yet another major news organization in this country, as long as there is a giant company that owns a news organization, and that giant company has business before the administration.

And this is according to the New York Times. “Shari Redstone, the chair and controlling shareholder of Paramount, told her board that she favored exploring a settlement with Trump. Some executives at the company viewed the president’s lawsuit as a potential hurdle to completing a multi-million, or I should say multi-billion dollar sale of the company to the Hollywood studio Skydance, which requires the Trump administration’s approval.”

And so any time you have one of these situations where a major media company that owns a prominent news organization wants to push through one of its media deals, and has to get the blessing and the sign off with the Trump administration, Donald Trump is going to put that company over a barrel.

Acosta went into greater detail, including his history at CBS, in his Substack post.

Watch above via The Jim Acosta Show.