Posted on 01/11/2017 2:04:40 PM PST by SeekAndFind
As soon as the long-awaited press conference from President-elect Donald Trump wrapped up this afternoon, CNN’s Jake Tapper took on the day’s speakers and main players for their treatment of his organization.
First, he addressed incoming press secretary Sean Spicer, who insinuated that CNN had also published the dossier of unverified reports on the President-elect that Buzzfeed posted last night. In reality, CNN reported that it existed and that Trump and President Barack Obama were briefed on its existence; only Buzzfeed released the document itself. Tapper noted as much in his broadcast.
“CNN never did that. We never provided even one detail from that dossier,” Tapper said. “That conflation — whether it’s because Sean Spicer misunderstood or some other reason — that’s not true. CNN did not do that.”
You can see the report that they ran — which appeared before the Buzzfeed report — here.
He moved on to say that CNN has spent “more than half a day” asking the Trump camp for a comment and receiving nothing, which happened again at the press conference in a very dramatic way.
“When Mr. Trump went after our own Jim Acosta, saying he’s ‘fake news’ and he isn’t going to call for him, what I suspect we are seeing here an an attempt to discredit legitimate, responsible attempts to report on this incoming administration with irresponsible journalism that hurts us all and the media, going forward, should keep that in mind,” Tapper stated, referring to Trump’s refusal to call on a CNN reporter at the event.
Then, he turned to Buzzfeed itself, calling the organization’s choice to put “uncorroborated information” online “irresponsible” for the second time today.
“That’s why we did not publish it and why we did not detail any specifics from it, because it was uncorroborated and that’s not what we do,” he said carefully. “We’re in the business of sussing out what is true and what is false.”
Watch above ( CLICK ABOVE LINK FOR THE VIDEO ).
Social media is the curse of the 21st century.
Jake Tapper has a thing for red headed dwarfs giving him a spanking in the bedroom, while he’s receiving a Dr. Pepper enema.. How’s that for news, Jakie boy??
Buzzfeed blew the setup. Throw CNN out of the WH Press Room. And any other subversive news outlet.
Yes, that was the point Trump was making, CNN kept saying that the guy was part of the Trump administration, instead of checking out who he was.
Sheppy...pussy.
that two page salacious dossier was attached to the rest of the Russian hacking nonsense report. Well if the Intel agency felt the need to attach a fake ass 4chan troll story to their intel report, it tells me the ENTIRE thing is a joke.
Lol!!
It’s Jake. Jake from Fake Farm.
Eeeeeeww about his wife.
...without any argument or interruption...
That’s impressive. I would have given greater odd at winning a 5 million dollar lottery.
Can hardly wait til it happens again ..based on its history it should happen again around 2026.
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