Trump has developed a pattern over a lifetime of “near business-political death experiences.” News breaks that he did something outlandish, something stupid, something inhumane and cruel, something that makes him look like a loser at best, and a dangerous criminal at worst.

He starts out adamantly denying the facts in front of our faces. The January 6th coup attempt is the perfect example when he vociferously and angrily denied he incited anything. We just heard the speech, asshole! From there, after the heated denials, he goes radio silent, pretends nothing happened. After a sufficient period, Trump turns the entire thing upside down with a whooping lie, such as “there was so much love at the protest,” the same protest in which cops were beaten to near death, with massive shots of bear spray shot right into police faces. “So much love.”

Well, Jim Acosta is sick of the pattern, sick of Trump, and sick of no one calling him out forcefully enough. Today, Acosta addressed Trump’s lies about January 6th.

“I cannot get over how delusional this sounds. I mean, the lies. It’s just nuts. But does it sound like the former president is emboldened to spin even more outrageous lies about January 6th as time passes on the deadly attack? We see this video day after day. It sounds delusional to listen to what he is saying.”

Brian Stelter agreed:

“Yeah, emboldened is the word. That is why this is relevant. We’ve seeing him over time dig in further and further and lies on this level are like a power trip. They are a challenge to the audience. Lies on this level, delusions on this level, you know, you’re daring people not to believe their eyes and own ears and daring people to deny what they know them to be true.”

The more time goes on, the less these videos are seen on Fox and the less are seen on Newsmax, and the memories do fade in right-wing media, and they fade in the rest of the country,” continued Stelter. “But the memories are fading within the MAGA base, and so he’s able, I think, to exert more power by becoming more emboldened with the lies, Jim.”

And Acosta summed it up with devastating simplicity:

“Yeah. He’s inviting his supporters to go and live in this cult-like alternate reality that he inhabits.”

Exactly. Nice job, men.

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