President Donald Trump quickly latched onto the news that three CNN employees resigned after the network had to retract a story about the Senate Intelligence Committee’s Russia probe.
Trump published a tweet early Tuesday morning blasting CNN as “fake news.”
Wow, CNN had to retract big story on "Russia," with 3 employees forced to resign. What about all the other phony stories they do? FAKE NEWS!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 27, 2017
Trump returned to the topic a couple of hours later, declaring that several other media outlets are also “fake news.”
Fake News CNN is looking at big management changes now that they got caught falsely pushing their phony Russian stories. Ratings way down!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 27, 2017
So they caught Fake News CNN cold, but what about NBC, CBS & ABC? What about the failing @nytimes & @washingtonpost? They are all Fake News!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 27, 2017
CNN published a report Thursday that the Senate Intelligence Committee was looking into a Russian investment fund, citing one anonymous source. Anthony Scaramucci, a member of Trump’s transition team, met with the chief executive of the fund earlier this year. CNN retracted the story late Friday, saying that the story did not meet the network’s editorial standards.
The network then announced Monday that the reporter who wrote the story and two editors would resign.
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Because, of course, Trump and his spokespeople have never said anything that was untrue or not completely accurate, The White House would be practically empty due to resignations if he demanded the same standard of not-fake from himself and his staff.
I guarantee this will be used as a reason to cut off CNN from all access at the White House.
People being held accountable for their mistakes?! Of course Trump is freaking out.
@centralasiaexpat No, just more of shitty “dominance” BS. Sean Spicer will tell Jim Acosta he should be grateful just to listen in with no video/audio.
OOOOOH!!!
If this were someone who has been upstanding, honest and admitted to his own MANY mistakes, lies and hypocrisy (inauguration crowd size, wiretapping, Russia poking nose in our elections, etc etc etc etc), I’d truly care.
But he’s not.
And I don’t.
Well if there is one good thing that comes out of them refusing to do on camera pressers it’s pics of Jim Costa’s socks. They’re actually pretty cool and more interesting that seeing Spicey and Huckelberry constantly lie and make up alternative facts.