Trump critic Jim Acosta reveals his next move after leaving CNN
Trump critic Jim Acosta reveals his next move after leaving CNN
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‘To President Trump and his allies, you may think you have silenced me. But guess again,” Jim Acosta noted just hours after signing off from CNN for the final time. “After two decades of service, I am leaving CNN to start a new chapter, and I won’t pull any punches this time around, either. I owe that to myself and to you,” Acosta said in a press release.
![[CNN anchor Jim Acosta said he was “still reporting from Washington” on Thursday while his future at the network remains in doubt.]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/23/20/cnn-newsroom-with-jim-acosta-%282%29.jpg)
“As I said during my sign-off at the end of my final show on CNN ... Don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to fear. Hold on to the truth. Hold on to hope,” Acosta added. “In the meantime ... To President Trump and his allies, you may think you have silenced me. But guess again.”.
Earlier on Tuesday, Acosta informed CNN viewers that he would be leaving the network after 18 years, letting them know that it came after some “careful consideration and weighing an alternative time slot” the network had offered him. He also delivered a serious final message to his audience.
“It is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant,” he said, adding: “Don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to the fear.”. Acosta’s departure comes after CNN chief executive Mark Thompson proposed moving him from his 10 a.m. ET weekday slot to a shift that would begin at midnight and not end until 2 a.m. on the East Coast.
While the network head attempted to portray the move to the “Siberia of television” as an opportunity, noting that Acosta would air in primetime on the West Coast and be simulcast on CNN International, critics have suggested that it was an effort to exile Acosta to late-night to curry favor with Donald Trump.
