CNN spent hours on Thursday morning with a screen graphic reading "TRUMP UNLEASHES FLURRY OF LIES AFTER MUELLER STATEMENT." At the top of the 11 am hour, standing in front of large letters that said "TRUMP ERUPTS," anchor Kate Boludan proclaimed "The president spoke and said a lot. And in doing so, he denied reality. and I don't say this flippantly. He lied. He also confirmed a report that depicts him as so insecure he can't even stand to see the name of someone that he doesn't like."
CNN makes is sound like Trump erupted like a volcano of lies, not just a flurry. Bolduan declared "It is still not normal, and it is still deserving to be called out." CNN's John Avlon insisted "the president doubling, tripling down on this outright falsehood. In fact saying if anything Russia was trying to get Hillary Clinton elected. That's just nonsense words." It's "the exact opposite of what is true."
The "flurry" screens began in the 9 am hour, as Avlon ranted about Trump's "unhinged outburst," and declared Robert Mueller "is the last honest man in a world of political grifters confronting a blizzard of lies."
This also happened at the top of the 10 am hour, anchor Jim Sciutto proclaimed "President Trump has now unloaded on the probe and on Robert Mueller himself, and the prospects of impeachment now, and really unloading like we have never seen before."
That's not true at all -- Trump has "unloaded" on the Russian probe hundreds of times, sending CNN for the smelling salts -- but it's good cable-news hyperbole to prevent channel-changing.
After a video clip of Trump saying "Russia didn't help me at all. Russia, if anything, I think, helped the other side," Sciutto replied "Well, there's no evidence of that. Literally, minutes earlier the president had tweeted in fact 'I had nothing to do with Russia helping me to get elected.' Those are the president's words, in fact, he tweeted that twice," he said with a chuckle.