{"id":23117,"date":"2026-05-22T11:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T11:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/jim-acosta-on-doj-anti-weaponization-fund-shouldnt-i-be-compensated\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T11:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T11:22:14","slug":"jim-acosta-on-doj-anti-weaponization-fund-shouldnt-i-be-compensated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/jim-acosta-on-doj-anti-weaponization-fund-shouldnt-i-be-compensated\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Acosta on DOJ anti-weaponization fund: &#8216;Shouldn&#8217;t I be compensated?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former BLN chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta on Thursday questioned whether he should receive compensation from the Department of Justice&#8217;s (DOJ) &#8220;anti-weaponization&#8221; fund. &#8220;[President] Trump seized my White House press pass back in 2018, violating my First and Fifth Amendment rights, all part of a sustained government effort to destroy my career,&#8221; Acosta wrote&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/media\/5890632-acosta-doj-anti-weaponization-fund\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former BLN chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta on Thursday questioned whether he should receive compensation from the Department of Justice&#8217;s (DOJ) &#8220;anti-weaponization&#8221; fund. &#8220;[President] Trump seized my White House press pass back in 2018, violating my First and Fifth Amendment rights, all part of a sustained government effort to destroy my career,&#8221; Acosta wrote&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}