Former CNN anchor Jim Acosta urged television networks to forgo live coverage of President Donald Trump’s primetime address, warning they would be ‘totally nuts’ to air what he described as the president’s ‘conspiracy theories’ without immediately fact-checking them.

Acosta’s Warning

Acosta relayed his worries that Trump would further spread alleged conspiracies surrounding the integrity of U.S. elections, thereby casting preliminary doubt on the integrity of this year’s midterms. He suggested the president could be forging a broader plot to create what he coined as a ’52-car pileup’ around the midterm elections.

Trump used the disclosures during Thursday’s address to press Congress to pass the SAVE America Act, casting the newly released intelligence as evidence that lawmakers must tighten federal election rules before the midterms.

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