Posted on 06/28/2025 9:15:59 PM PDT by NoLibZone
Well, CNN is at the center of yet another fake news hoax. What number is this now? Honestly, too many to count. But this latest stunt is especially egregious because it involves our national security.
So what happened?
CNN ran a bogus story claiming that President Trump’s highly successful military strikes barely dented Iran’s nuclear program and only set them back “a few months.” The goal was obvious: downplay the operation and spin it as a failure.
READ MORE: Cutthroat war between Bannon and Levin erupts… But here’s the problem: that claim completely contradicted the official military assessment, which stated the strikes were a resounding success. Senator Rubio and Pete Hegseth shredded the media and the likely leakers for pushing a false narrative that not only undermines President Trump but also puts US national security at risk.
Watch these two powerful clips:
The FBI launched a probe into the fake news leak.
Daily Caller:
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is launching a probe into a Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) report leaked to CNN assessing damage from President Donald Trump’s strikes on Iran, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday.
Hegseth announced the probe during the NATO summit in The Hague, Netherlands, saying that the media’s reporting on the leak was spun “to make the president look bad when this was an overwhelming success.” The report was first leaked to CNN, which reported that the preliminary findings suggested that the strikes on Fordow, Natanz and Esfahan nuclear facilities on June 21 did not completely destroy Iran’s nuclear program as Trump claimed.
Now here’s where the story takes a turn. Enter Natasha Bertrand… CNN’s Pentagon and national security correspondent. But she’s a lot more than that.
READ MORE: It only took 5 days for CNN’s Erin Burnett to accidentally expose the anti-Trump Iran war plot… Bertrand has been called a Deep State mouthpiece and a key player in pushing the Russia hoax, the infamous “pee tape” lie, and a long list of other intelligence-backed psy-ops, like the Hunter Biden laptop coverup and the “51 spies who lied.” But now, she’s got a new gig. Ms. Bertrand is the alleged leaker.
Press Secretary Levitt called her out by name.
Rapid Response:
@PressSec: “We have seen this playbook run before… leaked bits and pieces of an intel assessment to push a false narrative. And it’s to the same reporter, I will add —
@NatashaBertrand
of@CNN— who has done this in the past. In 2020, it was Natasha Bertrand who had 51 intelligence analysts falsely lie to her… that the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation.”
Dem leaders quickly fell in line, backing up the bogus story:
Now, President Trump is rightfully calling for Ms. Bertrand to be fired.
Of course, CNN doubled down on their shaky story and on their so-called star reporter, Natasha Bertrand.
https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1938052175701393441
So what happened? Why was it leaked?
Well, now we know.
The so-called “assessment” being passed around was junk—completely lacking in credibility. It was never going to be officially published because it wouldn’t hold up under real scrutiny.
Which means the only way this fake narrative could see the light of day was to leak it straight to the regime’s favorite cable news source: CNN. READ MORE: Riley Gaines DUNKS on Newsom after his pro-trans agenda gets smacked down…
That’s exactly why it landed in Natasha Bertrand’s lap. No ethical journalist would touch it. But she would, and that’s what makes Natasha the Deep State Darling that she is.
Journalist Molly Hemingway called out just how flimsy this so-called report really was.
https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1937954328423370964 But again, this shouldn’t surprise anybody, since Natasha is the Deep State’s go-to girl. And speaking of that, take a look at this reel, highlighting Natasha’s biggest fake news hits:
https://twitter.com/BigFish3000/status/1938389792343126175
And who can forget this oldie-but-goodie that reminds us how Natasha flung fake news and intel psyops like a monkey with a fistful of propaganda grenades? But hey, it paid off—she went from peddling fake dossiers to MSNBC starlet in record time.
https://twitter.com/byronyork/status/1938224787488170347
But don’t be fooled; it’s not just CNN and MSNBC beating the war drums and meddling with national security. Fox News has been joining in on the warmongering fun too.
Watch:
https://twitter.com/realamvoice/status/1938222181810405727
And speaking of Fox News, their chief Pentagon reporter, Jennifer Griffin, a known Deep State diva, is now flailing. She was recently nuked by Pete Hegseth.
https://twitter.com/SebGorka/status/1938437794524754164
Now she’s been exposed yet again as just another TDS shill. https://twitter.com/jackposobiec/status/1938225304176128379
And right on cue, the rats are scurrying. Bertrand is already trying to backpedal on her big “leak” story, hoping to save her own skin before it blows up anymore.
Richard Grenell:
On CNN International, @natashabertrand is walking back her story saying – now saying “it was an early assessment” but we didn’t really know. Not surprisingly, @biannagolodryga says “it proves Natasha was right”. lol. It only proves that Natasha makes stuff up (Hunter Biden’s laptop). And Bianna is a Democrat activist.
https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/1938268397852086281
And the media wonders why Americans don’t trust them, and CNN’s ratings are in the toilet…
READ MORE: Tucker just dropped a bombshell about his final days at Fox
News…
None of this is journalism; it’s sabotage. The left and their media lackeys will stop at nothing to undermine President Trump, even if it means dragging our military through the mud. Their mission isn’t truth. It’s to take down Trump. Period, and end of story.
Another hairy chested, liberal skank. IOW: a LOSER.
Trump jumping up and down shouting fire her. Here’s my question Mr. President. Why don’t you bring down the full force of the government on her sick ass and arrest her?
bttt
Exactly. She is a treasonous far-left skank pimping for the Iranian Ayatollahs and Moolahs.
Some of the comments in the comments section of the Revolver article are hilarious!
Very entertaining. Thanks for pointing that out! LOL
when you post this sort of article please go through and post it with frickin hyperlinks. I shouldn’t have to copy & paste everyone of them to view them. Many of the older folks wont be able to do that so your point is lost.
I am ashamed that I actually bought into that story at first; I didn’t see it on CNN because I haven’t watched that network, or any nightly news in over a decade, so I’m not even sure where I saw or read it.
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It’s ok. It is difficult to accept that there are traitors in America who are openly pushing treasonous lies.
I used to believe there is good in everyone but, over the years, I now know there isn’t. I know that anything bad about our President pushed by one of those anti-American new sources - from a reporter to the entire network - is a lie. Their entire agenda is to undermine and destroy America by attacking our President Donald J Trump. He is absolutely right - they don’t hate him, they hate US and he is standing in their way.
The Russian ‘tape’, the Hunter Biden laptop that supposedly was ‘Russian disinformation’ - all of it LIES. Discount EVERY SINGLE THING they say.
Just ban her from the grounds of the Pentagon. Then things will work themselves out naturally.
Stopped reading right there.
Rubio is no longer a Senator; he's been the Secretary of State for over five months now. And Hegseth is no longer a civilian, he's the Secretary of Defense.
-PJ
You can’t charge someone for “leaking” information that isn’t true.
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