CNN guest Joe Walsh goes nuclear on 'cowardly' network bosses for laying off 200 workers and shafting Trump nemesis Jim Acosta

Frequent CNN impermanent Joe Walsh slammed the web for its decisions to laic disconnected 200 workers and sideline Jim Acosta, who gained a estimation for being a thorn successful Donald Trump's broadside during his archetypal term.

Walsh, a erstwhile Republican congressman from Illinois, posted on societal media Thursday evening calling what CNN did 'cowardly bull****,' portion besides calling Acosta 1 of the network's 'most independent, unafraid hosts.'

'I look connected @CNN rather often. And if saying what I'm astir to accidental means my days astatine CNN are over, good past f*** it,' helium wrote connected X. 'CNN, what you conscionable did - removing @acosta from his greeting amusement - is cowardly bull****.'

'To demote him to f***ing appease the crybaby successful the White House is pathetic. And an abdication of your work to clasp ALL nationalist officials to account. Shame connected you CNN. Correct this mistake now,' Walsh concluded.

Acosta has hosted the 10am slot connected CNN since January 2021, and was antecedently the network's bulldog Chief White House Correspondent who dragged Trump into repeated debates astir whether oregon not determination was an 'invasion' astatine the US-Mexico border.

Executives gave Acosta the accidental to big a two-hour amusement astatine midnight, an connection helium reportedly balked at.

Before the layoffs were confirmed, The LA Times penned a study indicating that Acosta whitethorn present 'exit the network, according to radical acquainted with his thinking.'

Wolf Blitzer is taking implicit the 10am slot from Acosta, an 18-year seasoned astatine the network.

A unnamed media enforcement told erstwhile CNN newsman Oliver Darcy that CNN wants 'to get escaped of Acosta to propulsion a bony to Trump.'

'Midnight is not a superior connection erstwhile his ratings are among the champion connected the network,' the enforcement added. 

One of the astir celebrated interactions betwixt the Acosta and Trump took spot connected November 7, 2018, erstwhile helium criticized the president for his characterization of the Central American migrant caravan that was traveling up to the American confederate borderline astatine the time.

'They're hundreds of miles away, though. They're hundreds and hundreds of miles away. That's not an invasion,' Acosta said 

'You cognize what? I deliberation you should,' Trump started to say, pointing astatine Acosta. 'Honestly, I deliberation you should fto maine tally the country. You tally CNN. And if you did it well, your ratings would beryllium overmuch better.'

As Acosta tried to inquire different question, a White House intern hurried implicit and tried to drawback astatine the CNN reporter's microphone.

'Pardon me, ma'am,' Acosta started to accidental earlier Trump erstwhile again chopped him off. The intern past awkwardly ducked beneath Acosta.

The incidental sparked a heated statement online astir whether Acosta's carnal interaction with the pistillate intern was appropriate. 

Because of Acosta allegedly pushing her distant erstwhile she went to drawback for the mic, his White House property badge was revoked, though it was restored astir 2 weeks later.

The layoffs that began this week were first reported successful November and followed astir 100 cuts the web made implicit the summer.

At slightest 1 large sanction shaper has reportedly learned they're retired of a occupation connected Wednesday, with galore much acceptable to beryllium told connected Thursday, Status reported. 

Many shows are besides rumored to beryllium moving from New York and Washington to Atlanta, wherever accumulation costs are cheaper, according to CNBC.

Beyond Acosta's ouster from the airwaves, determination person been different shakeups to the TV lineup.

Jake Tapper's two-hour amusement volition present statesman astatine 5 p.m.; Audie Cornish volition big 'CNN This Morning' opening astatine 6 a.m.; Kasie Hunt volition big a caller show, 'The Arena,' astatine 4 p.m.; and Rahel Solomon volition bash a show, '5 Things,' astatine 5 a.m. 

Unaffected by the downsizing were immoderate of CNN's highest paid stars including Anderson Cooper - who rakes successful $20million a twelvemonth - Erin Burnett ($6million) and Kaitlan Collins ($3million). 

An insider told DailyMail.com Thursday that they made immense cuts to their TV part due to the fact that it has go truthful 'bloated' and overstaffed with radical who bash the bare minimum.

The layoffs are concentrated successful CNN's TV business, wherever ratings person tumbled arsenic consumers chopped disconnected cablegram and question different quality sources.

They volition yet beryllium offset by caller hires successful digital, wherever Warner Bros. Discovery is making a $70 cardinal investment, CNN said.

'This is not a cost-saving exercise, we're really leaning successful with accrued investments,' CNN CEO Mark Thompson said.

However, a root told DailyMail.com that: 'Layoffs each the clip - they needed to chopped the fat.'

CNN's translation 'isn't and can't beryllium a azygous acceptable of changes but a process of investment, experimentation and adaptation that volition past years,' Thompson said successful a memo to CNN staff.

'Our nonsubjective is simply a elemental one: to displacement CNN's gravity towards the platforms and products wherever the assemblage themselves are shifting.'

However, determination is simply a wide edict for journalists to beryllium much nonrecreational and impartial successful the 2nd epoch of Donald Trump.

'I deliberation we request to softly and patiently get connected with our jobs arsenic journalists,' helium said.

Thompson said helium wanted CNN to separate itself with hard-hitting journalism and fact-checking to fto viewers marque up their ain minds connected issues.

CNN's ratings person taken a deed since the predetermination of President Donald Trump, a longtime professional of the network.

The web averaged 1.7 cardinal viewers for Trump's inauguration this week, compared to 8 cardinal for Joe Biden's inaugural 4 years ago, though assemblage tin fluctuate based connected the governmental stance of the idiosyncratic being inaugurated.