“[The media has] been apologizing left and right,” Trump said during his campaign rally in Florida Friday night.
So began Trump’s first whack at responding to CNN’s major correction to a report on an email pointing Trump and top aides to hacked documents released by WikiLeaks prior to their publication.
“[CNN] should have been apologizing for the last two years,” Trump said amid cheers from the crowd.
Trump didn’t hesitate to throw ABC under the bus as well for “fraudster” Brian Ross’ erroneous report on former national security adviser Michael Flynn, claiming the network should’ve fired the now suspended reporter.
President Trump: "Did you see all the corrections the media has been making? … They never apologize."
Posted by Washington Examiner on Friday, December 8, 2017
Trump wasn’t quite done with his latest tirade against the media as his Saturday morning tweets echoed the same sentiment from the night before.
Fake News CNN made a vicious and purposeful mistake yesterday. They were caught red handed, just like lonely Brian Ross at ABC News (who should be immediately fired for his “mistake”). Watch to see if @CNN fires those responsible, or was it just gross incompetence?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 9, 2017
CNN’S slogan is CNN, THE MOST TRUSTED NAME IN NEWS. Everyone knows this is not true, that this could, in fact, be a fraud on the American Public. There are many outlets that are far more trusted than Fake News CNN. Their slogan should be CNN, THE LEAST TRUSTED NAME IN NEWS!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 9, 2017
CNN’s Friday afternoon correction came hours after the Washington Post published a report based on a copy of the email obtained by the newspaper’s reporters.
Trump’s latest hit against CNN comes off the heels of speculation surrounding the Dept. Of Justice’s complaint to block AT&T’s takeover of Time Warner (the news network’s parent company) and the network deciding to ditch this year’s White House Christmas party.
Every day, he goes lower and lower. Every damn day. What an ongoing tragedy for the country and the world. And let us remember, he’s not some lone wolf. The GOP built this and chooses to maintain it on a daily basis.
Perhaps the most frustrating aspect of fighting fascists is the blatant hypocrisy. A fascist can be exposed as a liar and fool nine out of ten times, but that one time they’re actually right about something completely validates them. Meanwhile, the antifascist can be 100% correct 19 out of 20 times – but if they get one thing wrong, it destroys their credibility.
Well, CNN are just too incompetent for this game, they should know to doublecheck ( saving money on editors is a mistake).
In 1973 Ron Ziegler jumped all over an honest but embarrassing mistake the WaPo made in its reporting on Hugh Sloan’s grand jury testimony about Haldeman and the slush fund he controlled. And yet the process continued, and the pressure was kept up. As it will here. The dogs may bark, but the caravan passes on.
Thank you Summer for keeping an eye on the motive
“Dept. Of Justice’s complaint to block AT&T’s takeover of Time Warner”
behind much of this noise…
Keep us posted