CNN Host Pushes Back On Trump Tweet Slamming Interview As ‘Fake News’

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CNN’s Chris Cuomo on Thursday pushed on President Donald Trump’s incorrect claim that the TV host failed to question Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) on his military record.

“So we have a new tweet,” CNN host Alisyn Camerota said. “There’s a tweet alert.”

“Well, it matters because it’s about me,” Cuomo said.

He read aloud the tweet in which Trump called his interview with Blumenthal “fake news.”

“Let’s just, please, just show the top of the interview,” Cuomo said.

Blumenthal told reporters on Wednesday that Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch told him in a meeting that Trump’s tweets about judges “were demoralizing and disheartening,” sparking Trump’s ire.

A spokesman for Gorsuch, Ron Bonjean, confirmed that the Supreme Court nominee made those remarks to Blumenthal.

On Thursday, Trump nevertheless suggested that Blumenthal lied about Gorsuch’s remarks.

In the interview aired earlier Thursday morning, Cuomo asked Blumenthal to respond to Trump’s attack on his credibility.

“What is your response to the President of the United States saying you should not be believed because you misrepresented your military record in the past?” he asked.

“The President, with all due respect, is once again off on the facts,” he said in the later segment. “And that’s not something that any of us have any desire to say on a regular basis but it keeps being true.”

Cuomo said “fake news” is the “worst thing” to call a journalist.

“He just keeps doubling down when the facts don’t favor his position,” he said. “The truth of the matter asserted is about whether or not this judge says what Blumenthal said he said, his own comms guy says it, nobody denies it except the President of the United States, and once again he doubles down when he’s wrong.”

CNN’s communications team also stepped in to fact-check the President via a tweet posted Thursday.

The network previously used the phrase “those are the facts,” apparently a new hallmark of its official statements contradicting the Trump administration, with regard to White House claims that CNN retracted concerns about top adviser Kellyanne Conway’s credibility.

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  1. This is exactly what all legitimate media outlets around the globe need to be doing, relentlessly…

  2. FOX: WTF is going on. Why is Sir Trump watching CNN?
    CNN: We gave him some stock options.

  3. OT, but FT is doing their bit re DT (and his Murdoch connection).

    Financial Times, London, Feb. 9 2017 It was the journalistic coup of the moment, the first British newspaper interview with Donald Trump since his victory. But there was one thing The Times of London did not reveal: that its proprietor Rupert Murdoch was sitting in on the conversation.The interview was conducted by Michael Gove, a former British cabinet minister and proponent of the UK’s exit from the EU.

  4. He needs Daddy to ensure he behaves himself.

  5. Yesterday they had a piece about Ivanka Trump as trustee of Murdoch’s youngest daugthers and the close business connections between DT and RM.

    Telling it like it is (same article as above)

    Mr Trump and Mr Murdoch are in regular contact while Mr Murdoch, who has been running Fox News Channel since Roger Ailes was pushed out last summer, has positioned the network squarely behind the new president. When Megyn Kelly, a star Fox News presenter, left the network for NBC last month, Mr Murdoch personally selected her replacement, the Trump-supporting presenter Tucker Carlson. Mr Carlson’s appointment means that the three key prime hours on Fox News are hosted by pro-Trump commentators.

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