CNN’s Jim Acosta on What He Fears About a Second Trump Term [Video]

Jim Acosta, CNN anchor and chief domestic correspondent, is steeling himself for the possibility of a second Trump term. After all, he still occasionally faces death threats thanks to his time covering the first Donald Trump administration, when his high-profile clashes with the president and his officials catapulted him to fame, earning him critics and admirers with equal ferocity. Things got so intense he considered moving his kids out of the United States.

Now, Acosta is the anchor of the 10 a.m. hour on CNN, where he covers breaking news from the 2024 election to the Israel-Hamas war and the Biden administration. From his perch as an anchor, he continues to describe Trump and his movement in blunt terms.

“We have to cover how he poses a threat to American democracy and he is in command of an extremist movement in this country,” Acosta said on this week’s edition of Press Club. “I was …