CNN’s report is far worse than Buzfeed. CNN lends an aura of respectability to the summary, which leave it up to the imagination of the viewers what the actual damaging information might be. Thus, Trump is destroyed by rumor, and is forced to deny any crazy claim that might be made.
Releasing the full 35 page document did Trump a favor - it was no longer up to anyone’s imagination, but something concrete that could be disproven, which it was.
What happened to the story that this was, in part, a 4Chan hoax?
It is a 4Chan hoax
The media just won’t report it