‘They’d Be Gone!’ Jim Acosta Stunned Trump Gets Away With Saying Biden Did Cocaine — Or Remarks On Jews and White Immigrants

CNN anchor Jim Acosta was stunned that former President Donald Trump faces no “consequences” when he says things that would end another person’s career — such as accusing President Joe Biden of doing cocaine before a speech.

On Tuesday’s edition of CNN Newsroom, Acosta ticked through a list of recent Trump outrages that he says would have ended a normal politician, but got little attention when Trump did it — like his cocaine remark, his comments about Jews who support Biden, or his cracks about welcoming immigrants from predominantly White countries.

CNN analyst Joe Walsh agreed with Acosta, and blamed the media’s “normalization” of Trump:

JIM ACOSTA: Because, I mean, Trump is doubling down on these comments that he made about, Jewish Americans who voted for Democrats. I think we talked about this other day. You know, he’s doing it again. Here’s what he said.

DONALD TRUMP: Any Jewish person that votes for Biden does not love Israel. And frankly, it should be spoken to. A lot of it’s habit. Jewish people by habit and — they just they vote for the Democrats and Black people by habit vote for the Democrats.

JIM ACOSTA: I know, Joe, we’ve talked about this so many times, but if literally any other politician in the history of America had just said that one thing right there, they’d be gone! If he just said that one!

Never mind that Trump over the weekend said Joe Biden did cocaine before the state of the Union. And over the weekend he said, if you know, if we had, if only we could have people coming in from Denmark.

Just individually, each one of those things, if they had been said by any other politician in the history of the United States, they’d be gone! And Trump says that one thing, he’s doubling down and he– nothing, nothing will happen. There are no consequences.

JOE WALSH: Jim, you’re so right. Anybody else? Any other? I say this as a former candidate, you would be done! The media, not you. The media has done such a disservice in brushing by the hundreds of horrible things he says every day.

Jim, this is his secret sauce. He throws so much, pardon me, shit against the wall every day, and we normalize it! You nailed it!

I mean, yesterday, over the weekend, he said the president of the United States was high on cocaine during the state of the Union. Nobody talked about that. We can’t do this!

JIM ACOSTA: It was eclipsed. Yeah.

JOE WALSH: It was eclipsed. Yeah. (laughs)

Watch above via CNN’s CNN Newsroom.