CNN’s Jim Acosta lambasted Fox News hosts on Saturday over text messages they sent former White House chief of workforce Mark Meadows on Jan. 6 asking former President Donald Trump to address his supporters at the Capitol.

Acosta’s point of competition was once not the content material of the messages, but how the hosts lined Jan. 6 after they despatched the texts, claiming they lied “to their viewers about what came about that day.”

Fox News congressional reporter Chad Pergram pronounced that all three hosts in query — Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity, and Brian Kilmeade — stand with the aid of the text messages they despatched urging de-escalation on the Capitol.

Ingraham has also strongly rebuked media coverage of her text trade with Meadows, announcing “In fact the regime media used to be looking to twist this message to try and tar me as a liar and hypocrite who privately sounded the alarm on January 6 however [publicly] downplayed it.”

On Tuesday, Ingraham reiterated Pergram’s reporting, saying that “each publicly and privately I mentioned what I imagine: that the Jan. 6 breach on the Capitol was a awful factor. Crimes were committed.” She brought, “Some folks had been unfairly hounded and persecuted, but it used to be now not an riot. To claim anything totally different is past dishonest and it ignores the details of that day.”

Hannity additionally said prior this week that he advised Meadows “the exact same factor I was once pronouncing survive the radio at that time and on TV that evening on Jan. 6 and well beyond Jan. 6,”

Acosta stated that different messages to Meadows had been reviewed with the aid of the choose Home committee investigating Jan. 6, together with a textual content forwarded with the aid of Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) that stated former Vice President Mike Pence must “call out all electoral votes that he believes are unconstitutional as no electoral votes in any respect.”

“He seems worried,” Acosta said of Jordan’s demeanor all the way through a Spectrum Information interview over the summer season.

“What’s much more disgusting is that Fox Information host Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity, they’ve been caught pink-exceeded acting like North Korean state tv, lying to their viewers about what happened that day, covering up the misdeeds of a wannabe dictator, blaming Antifa sympathizers for January sixth, and downplaying the violence in the days that adopted,” Acosta persisted. “Guys, you’ve been busted in your bullshit, on your betrayal.”

Acosta went on to play clips of the hosts conversing about Jan. 6 after the fact, during which they claimed that almost all of protesters had been peaceful.

Acosta did, however, go on to offer somewhat of praise to Geraldo Rivera — a vocal critic of the situations of Jan. 6 and Tucker Carlson’s “Patriot Purge” special — for confronting Hannity over his texts and “plead[ing] with Hannity to return back to the real world.”

Geraldo to Sean Hannity: "I urge you, Sean, to take into account that the state of mind you weren’t while you wrote that textual content on January 6. And when Laura did. And when Brian did. And when Don Jr. did!"

Dan Bongino reacts by way of blasting Geraldo for "backstabbing" Trump. p.c.twitter.com/YSPYfBwAf4

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