CNN Hits Back At Trump Over Attack On Its Reporters
LAGOS AUGUST 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-President Trump’s favorite news outlet to hate did not back down from the commander-in-tweet’s recent attack on its reporting.
He tweeted Wednesday that CNN is “being caught in a major lie” over a story purporting that he knew about the infamous 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Trump campaign officials and a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer. The president went on to trash legendary journalist Carl Bernstein, one of three reporters responsible for the story; Jim Sciutto and Marshall Cohen also reported.
CNN, via its PR Twitter account, jumped to the reporters’ defense, saying, “CNN does not lie. We report the news. And we report when people in power tell lies. CNN stands by our reporting and our reporters. There may be many fools in this story but @carlbernstein is not one of them.”
Trump was referring to a story on his former lawyer Michael Cohen’s claim that the president had prior knowledge of the meeting.
CNN is being torn apart from within based on their being caught in a major lie and refusing to admit the mistake. Sloppy @carlbernstein, a man who lives in the past and thinks like a degenerate fool, making up story after story, is being laughed at all over the country! Fake News
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 29, 2018
Make no mistake, Mr. President, CNN does not lie. We report the news. And we report when people in power tell lies. CNN stands by our reporting and our reporters. There may be many fools in this story but @carlbernstein is not one of them.
— CNN Communications (@CNNPR) August 29, 2018
Cohen’s lawyer Lanny Davis has admitted to being one of the sources for the story but wavered in subsequent interviews on what he knows. Regardless, CNN has made it clear the story was confirmed through multiple sources.
“CNN did not report whether Trump knew about the meeting before it happened ― only that Cohen was making that claim while hoping for a deal from prosecutors,” Sciutto and Bernstein clarified in a story on Tuesday.
We’re sure the president will accept that and move on.
This article originally appeared on HuffPost.
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