Are You Okay? Jim Acosta, CNN Colleagues Suddenly Seem Concerned About Looting -- but There's a Problem

Not that it should surprise most people reading this, but CNN performance journalist Jim Acosta is spending his final days as a White House correspondent obsessing over what items are being removed from the Trump White House, and insinuated in tweets and in a “report” he filed with the network Thursday that some pieces were being looted by Trump aides and officials.

It started off with a photo tweet from him characterizing one image from the scene as looking “like an estate sale”:

It’s like an estate sale over here. https://t.co/MbBD6O5u0n

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) January 14, 2021

Later, he tweeted about what he thought was an Abe Lincoln bust being lifted from the premises:

More stuff (appears to be Abe Lincoln bust) leaving the West Wing this afternoon. pic.twitter.com/4fjkVPmiMS

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) January 14, 2021

He then rushed to share his “findings” about the supposed looting on the state-run cable news outlet otherwise known as CNN:

Jim Acosta fears Trump aides are looting the White House: ‘Not souvenirs you can take home’ https://t.co/wK7xgR1sbJ

— Raw Story (@RawStory) January 14, 2021

HuffPo contributor Yashar Ali, who is no fan of President Trump’s, tried to intervene in Acosta’s looting rant by providing clarification on what was going on:

Stuff lent to the White House by various museums controlled by the federal government always gets returned at the end of a term like this.

The Bidens will pick their favorite things to accept on loan from museums and those items will be installed before they arrive. https://t.co/8k4woxEPMd

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) January 14, 2021

2. Also, we don't even know which bust this is. There are lots of pieces that aren't particularly valuable and don't require excessive handling practices.

The White House curator oversees a collection of 60k + items.

I'll also note, curators work for multiple administrations.

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) January 14, 2021

Not surprisingly, being interrupted with some facts contra to the false narrative he was establishing with his Twitter following didn’t matter to Acosta, who posted later that evening about “more stuff being moved out”:

More stuff being moved out of West Wing. This appears to be a stuffed bird. pic.twitter.com/EkUChUDXLC

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) January 14, 2021

The soon-to-be weekend anchor was so “concerned” about what was going on that he consulted with the White Hosue Historical Association, where they promptly dumped cold water on Acosta’s insinuations about White House looting:

WH historical society says they are confident items being removed from West Wing are being handled appropriately. https://t.co/iu65JxARvs

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) January 15, 2021

Bit more on this… Folks at the WH Historical Association tell me they've been assured by the chief usher and curator for WH that they are accounting for the Lincoln bust and every item in the collection. https://t.co/qeFK0Uniy2

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) January 15, 2021

Acosta’s equally unhinged CNN “New Day” colleague Alisyn Camerota all but accused the Trumps of looting from the White House as well, stating on the program Friday morning that she hoped “they’re not absconding with the bust. I hope that was theirs.”

CNN political analyst Errol Louis also chimed in and feigned concern about looting, and at one point stated “certainly one does hope that they’re not looting the place.”

I should note that the “concern” these CNN figures are showing about alleged looting is something of a new thing for them – because as BLM and Antifa rioters actually looted and set businesses on fire for months on end last year, we were told by CNN anchors and reporters that the looters and rioters were actually “peaceful protesters” who were exercising their First Amendment rights.

Too bad they didn’t show real concern about looting and rioting when it really mattered. But no one should be surprised they didn’t because, as we’ve documented numerous times before, CNN is simply not a news network. Rioter Apologist Network is a much more fitting description.