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CNN went all out for its election certification coverage Monday in marking four years since the deadly ugly riot at the U.S. Capitol, but they at least had the wherewithal to have a conservative on-set (or at least most of the time), including CNN conservative commentator Brad Todd for CNN This Morning and CNN Newsroom with Jim Acosta.

It was on the latter show that Todd dished it back to Acosta and liberal commentator Maria Cardona when it came to anti-Trump lawfare, the deeply partisan nature of the Nancy Pelosi-picked January 6 committee, and voters rejecting the left’s mandate they make January 6 a focus of what they did at the ballot box.

Thankfully, Todd wasn’t alone on CNN writ large as CNN senior political commentator Scott Jennings had reality checks for CNN News Central and later during the joint session of Congress.

A few minutes after Acosta’s sanctimonious opening about Trump “regaining power and reigniting fears…four years to the day after a mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol, smash[ed] windows and doors, brutally attack[ed] police officers and shock[ed] the nation,” he turned to Cardona by saying all Americans should “take a moment to remember the bravery of the police officers” whose “helped safeguard American democracy after Trump’s lies.”

Acosta even cited real-life anti-Trump Loony Tune Steven Collinson, who whined Trump winning allowed him to “send a message down through the ages that a president who refuses to accept the results of a fair and free election” can carry out acts of violence as they see fit.

Once Cardona got her chance to issue standard Democratic talking points, Todd got his chance after Acosta lectured: “Brad, is it time for Donald Trump to apologize for what took place four years ago?”

“I wouldn’t expect Donald Trump would apologize. I think – nor do I expect Democrats to apologize for trying to undo his presidency by all legal and extralegal means after that,” Todd unflinchingly replied.

Acosta was disgusted, shouting “oh, come on, Brad. Come on!”

Todd continued to press his case with a sober view about January 6 and then how voters were poised to punish Trump again at the ballot box until Democrats chose to hurl their slew of criminal indictments.

Check out the back and forth as Acosta cartoonishly screeching with concern about “how could your party let [Trump] be the nominee again,” Todd’s reply about Pelosi’s dictatorial grip on the committee, and Acosta singing Liz Cheney’s praises as a “good Republican” (click “expand”):

TODD: Look at our own polling. Look at exit polling. January 6th was a dark day on the history of our country. Donald Trump bears a lot of responsibility for that. It’s something that should stain his legacy forever. However, voters punished him for it. That’s why he was behind Ron DeSantis by 20 points until Alvin Bragg indicted him. And once voters decided that Democrats were determined to prevent Donald Trump from being elected by any extrajudicial legal means, they decided maybe this wasn’t as clear.

ACOSTA: Shouldn’t your party have just rejected him? Flat out rejected him, from Kevin McCarthy to Mitch McConnell to the whole lot of them. How could – how could your party let him be nominee again? That’s my question!

TODD: Watch what Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell said in the aftermath of that. They absolutely did condemn him. Mitch McConnell was still condemning him months after on the floor. Nancy Pelosi decided to use January 6th as political gain.

CARDONA: That’s not true, Brian.

TODD: She refused to allow McCarthy to appoint Republicans to the committee.

CARDONA: That’s not true, either!

TODD: She didn’t let Republicans hire staff to the January 6th Oversight Committee. They didn’t allow cross-examination of witnesses.

ACOSTA: The January 6th committee had the Republican of all Republicans, Liz Cheney, on there.

TODD: Liz Cheney was not — she was not appointed by the Republican conference.

ACOSTA: She was booted out of your party.

TODD: She wasn’t appointed by her conference –

ACOSTA: I mean, Dick Cheney’s daughter!

TODD: – like every other committee.

ACOSTA: Good Republican.

TODD: She wasn’t appointed by the Republican conference.

ACOSTA: Good Republican.

Earth to Maria: Just shouting something isn’t true doesn’t make it so!

Acosta and Cardona then had this tone-deaf exchange about Democratic heartburn Attorney Merrick Garland didn’t prosecute Trump fast enough (i.e. have him jailed) and voters not sharing the same priorities as they do about January 6:

Todd clapped back with a reminder that it was Pelosi who “tried to politicize” investigations of what happened in 2021, but Cardona whined “it’s not” true and “the facts are the facts, Brad.”

Even though Todd acknowledged “it deserves a full, bipartisan investigation,” Cardona griped there never will be because “when your party initially said yes, Donald Trump is in the wrong, and then completely capitulated” with “everyone” having gone “down to Mar-a-Lago to kiss the ring and everything changed after that.”

Acosta, ever the out-of-touch liberal partisan, closed by hurling one last kick of the dirt in the faces of over 77 million Americans who voted for Trump: “And the knee-bending continues. That’s certainly the case.”

To see the relevant CNN transcript from January 6, click here.