All set with his hair sloshed to one side (presumably by the wind), CNN chief White House correspondent and carnival barking extraordinary Jim Acosta reported on Wednesday’s Situation Room ahead of a Trump rally that the President has plunged America “toward a constitutional crisis” while solidifying a reputation as a con-man, turning “the art of the deal...into the art of the conceal.”

Host and Democratic softball pitcher Wolf Blitzer set him up by stating that Trump’s “clearly digging in as his administration seeks to block investigations by congressional Democrats at every turn” and “doing whatever he can to keep records from going public.”

Clearly locked and loaded (while feeling quite proud of himself), Acosta parroted House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) in telling viewers that “President Trump appears to be heading toward a constitutional crisis with House Democrats as he continues to hide the Mueller report as well as his tax returns from lawmakers.”

A few segments later, Justice reporter Laura Jarrett pushed back on this hyperbole, so if Jarrett is going to say something, one has to realize the left should pump the brakes.

At any rate, Acosta smirked and delivered the doozy mocking the President’s well-known book heading into the voice-over portion of his report:

The White House is defending the President’s of executive privilege today as it seems the art of the deal has turned into the art of the conceal. Playing a game of hide and seek, President Trump is pulling out all the stops to keep the full Mueller report out of the hands of House Democrats.

“In a retaliatory strike, the President is now asserting executive privilege to block the report's unreleased materials from House Democrats after Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler sought to hold attorney general William Barr in contempt of congress for refusing to hand over what they want,” he added.

After recapping the Trump controversies concerning the Mueller report, whether Don McGahn should testify before Congress, and the President’s tax returns, Acosta ruled as if he weren’t alive in 2015, 2016, or even three decades ago: “Mr. Trump's steep losses in real estate call also into question his main pitch to voters in 2016, that he was a business genius.”

In the next hour, Acosta reiterated his nonsense about “a constitutional crisis” and “the art of the conceal.” How cute.

To see the relevant transcript from CNN’s The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer on May 8, click “expand.”