CNN’s Acosta: Trump Knows ‘Coup’ Rhetoric Is Hyperbole and His ‘Conservative Media Cocoon’ Won’t Call Him on It

RUSH EXCERPT:

ACOSTA: “I don’t think he understands what he’s saying there, when he says an attempted coup. I suppose he understands what the literal definition of an attempted coup is, but I think he is obviously engaging in hyperbole. He knows he’s engaging in hyperbole. And when he uses those kinds of words, he’s hoping that when he’s insulated inside his own conservative media cocoon that nobody is going to challenge him on that. That’s why he was saying there in those comments, ‘Well, the fair media, they know what’s going on, they know what really happened.’ That is code word for, well, when we start asking questions about whether or not he actually means that there was an attempted coup, that he can’t really defend those comments.”

(Via Mediaite)