‘Scary’: Jim Acosta flags chilling detail in Trump’s ‘deranged dictator speech’

President Donald Trump addressed the nation Thursday with a primetime speech largely about supposed election security shortcomings, but one overlooked remark – a mention of an alleged “plot” – carried what former CNN anchor Jim Acosta called on Friday "scary" implications.

“It was another one of those deranged dictator speeches for Donald Trump over at the White House,” Acosta said in a video published Friday on his Substack.

In the lead up to the address, the White House teased that it would coincide with the release of new evidence of election interference in the 2020 election. However, the new documents released by the Trump administration reportedly “did not support the president’s sweeping assertions.”

What caught Acosta’s attention were Trump’s remarks regarding the media, which included attacks on NBC News and ABC News for not covering his address, along with an accusation that U.S. media outlets were “part of a plot” to “continue” voter fraud in the United States.

“The thing that was scary about that speech is he was talking about going after journalists. He was talking about going out to the broadcast licenses for ABC and NBC for refusing to carry that speech,” Acosta said.

“But this is the important thing to keep in mind. There was one person who did try to commit voter fraud in the 2020 election, and that is Donald Trump. He tried to overturn a free and fair election, and we have lots of evidence that he tried to do that.”

Regarding the rest of Trump’s address, Acosta dismissed it as nothing more than familiar unsubstantiated claims about election fraud.

“He brought out all of these crazy conspiracy theories about China and Venezuela, but one thing you did not hear from Donald Trump, throughout that speech, he did not present any evidence that votes were switched from Donald to Joe Biden,” Acosta said. “You know why? Because that evidence does not exist. It has never existed.”