Posted on 08/29/2018 5:01:26 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
President Trump on Wednesday stepped up his personal attacks against CNN, lambasting the network and veteran journalist Carl Bernstein for a July report about the 2016 Trump Tower meeting.
“CNN is being torn apart from within based on their being caught in a major lie and refusing to admit the mistake," Trump tweeted Wednesday evening. "Sloppy @carlbernstein, a man who lives in the past and thinks like a degenerate fool, making up story after story, is being laughed at all over the country! Fake News”.
Bernstein, known for his coverage of the Watergate scandal, co-wrote an article for CNN, reporting that Trump's former lawyer and "fixer," Michael Cohen, was willing to tell special counsel Robert Mueller that then-candidate Trump knew about the June 2016 meeting between Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer promising dirt on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Cohen’s attorney, Lanny Davis, later publicly confirmed that he was the source for the story. He walked back his claim that Cohen knew Trump was aware of the meeting.
“I regret not being much clearer in saying I'm not sure about this story,” Davis, who is an opinion contributor at The Hill, told NBC News.
Donald Trump, Jr. also criticized CNN for the story, tweeting Sunday, “Comical to watch @CNN covering for leftist hack @carlbernstein. He & Obama staffer @jimsciutto obviously got story wrong. CNN "stands by" it anyway, defending literal fake news. 3 "reporters" were fired for false CNN hit on @Scaramucci & this is FAR worse!”
"We stand by our story, and are confident in our reporting of it," a CNN spokeswoman said on Tuesday.
Keep punching back.
Seems to me it might be fun to gin up some nonsense and start sending it ‘anonymously’ to CNN to see if they feed on it.
They actually did that to ABC news, that’s how they outed the Senate Intelligence Committee staffer as a leader. Would be surprised if there are not other similar stories that we just haven’t learned about yet.
Trump has to do all the heavy lifting himself. No help from the Repuki party...disgusting.
They actually did that to ABC news, that’s how they outed the Senate Intelligence Committee staffer as a leader. Would be surprised if there are not other similar stories that we just haven’t learned about yet.
My tag lines was setup ages ago.
LOVE to see President Trump on Offense!
Liberal: “I find Donald Trump offensive!”
Me: “Yes, that’s when he’s at his best!”
See, Trump was too kind to Bernstein. /s
I am sick of these liberal “reporters” continuously saying that it’s Trump who’s attacking when all he’s doing is responding to unfair attacks.
Bernstein’s father was a Communist Party member and his mother was also a traitor involved in anti-American work who joined the Party.
He and his spotlight addicted partner Woodward did not honestly do heroic reporting and stumble onto a scandal against Nixon—they despised him as an anti-Communist and worked to try to find something, anything to bring him down.
Sound familiar??
Kindly cease imposing your definition of what’s important on your fellow FReepers.
They were stenographers for Mark Felt.
Bernstein is a liar.
Picked the wrong battle. Kenneth.
Explain what you think is important. It would help.
Pretty pathetic that CNN has nothing to cling to but a debunked lie that everyone knows is a lie - as they rail against being called “Fake News”......so sad.....;-)
My comment was directed at the article poster, not you. However... if the writer of the article feels words or paragraphs are important enough to bold them, so be it. Otherwise, FReepers should post the article as is without personal embellishments.
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