‘Nobody’s Made A Big Deal!’ CNN’s Jim Acosta Stunned Trump’s Beheading-Themed Email Hasn’t Gotten More Attention
CNN anchor Jim Acosta was stunned that former President Donald Trump’s beheading-themed campaign email hasn’t gotten more attention, asking “Is he getting out of control?”
Trump sent out a fundraising plea headlined in red letters: “HAUL OUT THE GUILLOTINE!”
The body of the email referenced comedian Kathy Griffin’s infamous photoshoot with, as Trump put it, “my BEHEADED head” — but the precise intent of that subject line was left to the imagination.
Acosta opened a segment on Wednesday’s edition of CNN Newsroom With Jim Acosta by reading out the email and expressing astonishment at how little coverage it got:
JIM ACOSTA: The Trump campaign put out a fundraising email earlier this morning. I want to show this to our viewers, get your response.
It says at the top of this, highlighted capital letters, “HAUL OUT THE GUILLOTINE!”
And Trump goes off on his grievances there. But, you know, in light of everything that we’ve been through in this country, January 6th, you know, “Hang Mike Pence” on January 6th. We’ve seen Donald Trump out on the campaign trail saying, “I am your retribution” and so on. Are we getting a little too? And nobody’s really made a big deal out of this email. Came out a couple of hours. Nobody’s made a big deal! Are are we–
MARIA CARDONA: I’m glad you are.
JIM ACOSTA: Well, you know, I’m highlighting it because I just wonder, are we getting a little too numb to this kind of rhetoric? (Yeah.) Is it getting out of control?
RINA SHAH: I’ve been struck by.
JIM ACOSTA: Is he out of control?
RINA SHAH: Trump has been out of control for a long time, because what he’s wanted to do is whack this whole notion of impartiality, which I heard you touching on and I couldn’t agree more.
And I’m really glad you touch on that, because that impartiality is what makes us a country. We aren’t a country if we can’t look at our institutions and say, these institutions protect the very American values that I know so many conservatives care about, which are freedom, equality, justice.
If we don’t have those things, we’re not a nation at all.
Trump wants to whack those things away just because he’s mentally unstable on that day, and wants to talk about a guillotine and wants to say that they want to take me to the guillotine. Buddy, it was you that was fine with people doing that to your vice president.
MARIA CARDONA: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think it’s I think that kind of language is outrageous. But it’s also not surprising coming from Donald Trump.
I mean, I guess I will say now that he is a 34 times convicted felon, he can’t have a gun, so he can’t shoot people on Fifth Avenue. So maybe now it’s a guillotine that he’s going to be using to kill people.
JIM ACOSTA: You know, to me, it’s just the maybe we’ve gotten too numb to this. (Yes.( There’s been a lot of talk about Trump amnesia. It’s Trump numbness.
MARIA CARDONA: It’s Trump numbness. And the more that he does it, I think he knows that, Jim, the more that he does it people are going to say, oh, that’s just Trump. Oh, that’s just Trump.
But what we do know is he already put out a plan about what he’s going to do in 2025, and it is all about taking away our freedoms, deporting 11 million undocumented immigrants, making life miserable for, frankly, the people who voted against him.
Watch above via CNN Newsroom With Jim Acosta.
