Former CNN anchor Jim Acosta urged television networks to forgo live coverage of President Donald Trump's primetime address last Thursday, warning they would be "totally nuts" to air what he described as the president's "conspiracy theories" without immediately fact-checking them."I think the networks are totally nuts if they take this speech live," Acosta said on "The Joy Reid Show.""It is totally crazy to put his bats--- ‘Looney Tunes’ conspiracy theories on live national television without fact-checkers in real time, and some of the networks will say, 'Well, we'll have some fact-checkers on afterwards,' and the fact-checkers will come on and say, 'Well, there isn't any evidence to support his claims.' It's all boloney kabuki Washington DC theater."ABC, NBC, CNN AVOID AIRING TRUMP'S PRIMETIME ELECTION SECURITY ADDRESS LIVEJim Acosta was CNN’s White House correspondent during President Trump’s first administration.(Photo by John Nacion/Variety via Getty Images)Acosta relayed his worries to Reid 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 has never ever proven any of these things.He has lost the benefit of the doubt," he said."We should not be erring on the side of putting these things out there, and I totally agree with you that he's chumming the waters for not trusting the midterms."TRUMP RELEASES DECLASSIFIED ELECTION INTELLIGENCE, SAYS IT REVEALS 'SHOCKING VULNERABILITIES'President Donald Trump addresses the nation from the East Room of the White House on July 16 in Washington, D.C.
(Saul Loeb/Pool - Getty Images)Adding to his critique, Acosta suggested the president could be forging a broader plot to create what he coined as a "52-car pileup" around the midterm elections."[He could] say, "See, I can't trust these results over here in this state or these results over here in that key district that may determine the contro...