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Mr. Sparkle

(2,915 posts)
Thu Jun 10, 2021, 09:15 AM Jun 2021

Jim Acosta Rips Trump-Appointed IG Who Did Report on Bible Photo Op:

‘Auditioning to be Inspector General at Mar-a-Lago’

CNN anchor Jim Acosta ripped Trump-appointed Interior Department Inspector General Mark Greenblatt over a report that former President Donald Trump says exonerates him in the violent clearing of protesters from Lafayette Park just before his Bible-toting photo-op last June. The inspector general’s report was greeted by one of Trump’s non-Twitter tweet-style statements, which began “Thank you to the Department of the Interior Inspector General for Completely and Totally exonerating me in the clearing of Lafayette Park!”

But on Thursday morning’s edition of New Day, Acosta ripped the IG and the report when co-anchors Brianna Keilar and John Berman asked him to weigh in. “I certainly think it raises more questions than it answers,” Acosta said, and noted the report’s claim that “the Park Police cleared the park with the purpose of setting up this fence because obviously the protesters needed to be moved back from this area where they were defacing statues and potentially pulling down the Andrew Jackson statue and so on.” “I was in the Rose Garden that day when Trump gave that speech and said ‘I’m going to go to this special place,’ talking about the church, and you could hear the Park Police and other Federal forces, DC police, clearing that park, they were violently pummeling protesters, tear-gassing protesters,” Acosta recalled, noting that at the time, “the White House was telling us ‘Oh we didn’t use tear gas,’ the DC police were using tear gas. ”

Acosta also noted that the IG report didn’t include interviews with key sources, saying “According to the inspector general’s report, they did not speak to senior White House officials, they did not speak to the Secret Service, so this certainly raises more questions.” “And I have to say, when I read through this report, it sounded as if this inspector general was auditioning to become the inspector general at Mar-A-Lago because this is almost a whitewash of what occurred on June 1st,” Acosta continued.

https://www.mediaite.com/news/jim-acosta-rips-trump-appointed-ig-who-did-report-on-bible-photo-op-auditioning-to-be-inspector-general-at-mar-a-lago/

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Jim Acosta Rips Trump-Appointed IG Who Did Report on Bible Photo Op: (Original Post) Mr. Sparkle Jun 2021 OP
Acosta comes up with some good ones! 50 Shades Of Blue Jun 2021 #1
Not "almost a whitewash" but a brazen pile of steaming lies. lagomorph777 Jun 2021 #2
Yeah, that struck me too. smirkymonkey Jun 2021 #18
Greenblatt is a Trump mole and a right-wing hack. dalton99a Jun 2021 #3
;-{) Goonch Jun 2021 #4
Trump for Prisondate. twodogsbarking Jun 2021 #5
K&R UTUSN Jun 2021 #6
time to get the mole greenblatt the hell out of government spanone Jun 2021 #7
This. bamagal62 Jun 2021 #9
Odiousracist#45 IG appointees all need to be shown the door--they've probably destroyed any RestoreAmerica2020 Jun 2021 #8
Should have been gone since day bamagal62 Jun 2021 #10
this llashram Jun 2021 #22
THIS! We needed a MASSIVE housecleaning, starting that day. calimary Jun 2021 #23
The news gleefully led with the inspector general's report. Yet the news about Politicub Jun 2021 #11
Very few Trump appointments were qualified. They were hired for loyalty to Trump. Lonestarblue Jun 2021 #12
Riiiiiiiiight. SergeStorms Jun 2021 #13
Dear Mark Milley : Please step up, show some stones, and state what bullwinkle428 Jun 2021 #14
It's going to take a while to root out all these Trumpsters from their government jobs. patphil Jun 2021 #15
Agree 1000% - they are placed throughout every agency at multiple levels. Getting rid of them NoMoreRepugs Jun 2021 #20
Another Trump ass licker. Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2021 #16
If the IG's report was true, we would have known about it a day or two after the fact KS Toronado Jun 2021 #17
One of his lackeys tried to whitewash that sorry little event? BobTheSubgenius Jun 2021 #19
trump appointee? llashram Jun 2021 #21
Mark Greenblatt needs to be fired. LiberalFighter Jun 2021 #24

RestoreAmerica2020

(3,433 posts)
8. Odiousracist#45 IG appointees all need to be shown the door--they've probably destroyed any
Thu Jun 10, 2021, 09:57 AM
Jun 2021

..and all evidence of malfeasance requested by their from boss and or his sycophants; plus are now there to sabotage any progress made by Pres. Biden and report any and all to internal info to their traitor boss-- time to clean house!

Politicub

(12,163 posts)
11. The news gleefully led with the inspector general's report. Yet the news about
Thu Jun 10, 2021, 10:05 AM
Jun 2021

the agenda of the inspector general is getting limited exposure.

There is a frightening amount of revisionist history happening around the brutality of the Trump administration; it is not an accident.

Lonestarblue

(9,880 posts)
12. Very few Trump appointments were qualified. They were hired for loyalty to Trump.
Thu Jun 10, 2021, 10:11 AM
Jun 2021

Why are they still in the government and able to keep putting out lies? Rounding up and firing all those Trump hired, especially those during his last two years should have been done already. Trump tried to place as many moles as possible to keep his lies alive and to thwart actual governing.

SergeStorms

(18,903 posts)
13. Riiiiiiiiight.
Thu Jun 10, 2021, 10:19 AM
Jun 2021

Trump always carried a bible with him wherever he went, I remember that distinctly. Not for photo-ops, mind you, but because he is such a devout Christian and family man.

They expect any thinking person to swallow that line of shit? His cult will accept it without question. Remember, I said "thinking person", so that would eliminate any republican on the planet.

Just another steaming pile of horseshit from a Trump appointee. Biden had better clean house and remove any leftover Trump garbage, pronto.

bullwinkle428

(20,627 posts)
14. Dear Mark Milley : Please step up, show some stones, and state what
Thu Jun 10, 2021, 10:39 AM
Jun 2021

a complete piece of bullshit this "IG report" is. YOU. WERE. THERE.

NoMoreRepugs

(9,260 posts)
20. Agree 1000% - they are placed throughout every agency at multiple levels. Getting rid of them
Thu Jun 10, 2021, 11:34 AM
Jun 2021

and replacing with someone qualified if the postion warrants NOT being vacant is a time consuming process.

KS Toronado

(16,911 posts)
17. If the IG's report was true, we would have known about it a day or two after the fact
Thu Jun 10, 2021, 10:48 AM
Jun 2021

Not months after the fact, whitewash written all over this.

llashram

(6,265 posts)
21. trump appointee?
Thu Jun 10, 2021, 11:35 AM
Jun 2021

of course. But magrats are taking this "exoneration" back to their little mousie holes and nibbling on this piece of cheese. Only to be able to regurgitate it later as proof their fuhrer was innocent of all wrongdoing...

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