Jim Acosta warns 'vandal' Trump could be 'credibly accused' of damaging federal property

Former CNN broadcaster Jim Acosta warned that President Donald Trump could be considered a "vandal" accused of damaging federal property — just as the president has threatened to others over the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

Acosta spoke with Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) about the president's threat to arrest and charge anyone who damaged the remodeled monument during an episode of "The Jim Acosta Show" on Wednesday. He suggested Trump could be facing questions over vandalism.

"The Trump administration is talking about how destroying federal property is a crime, and it's true," Acosta said. "There is a law that says you can't destroy federal property. And I think if it's over $1,000 or something like that, it becomes potentially a felony and you could go to prison for 10 years."

Raskin responded to the comment.

"And we want restitution for that," Raskin explained. "We want the felon vandal who destroyed government property to pay for it. So that's hundreds of millions of dollars of damage that Trump did unilaterally, lawlessly, with no permit at all — bulldozing the White House. And now he's asking for a billion dollars from us to build his gold ballroom, for which Congress never appropriated any money. We didn't legislate that. And it's Congress that decides on the disposition of federal property."