Fake News at CNN

“Hello, CNN? I got some great fake news for you. Just remember- I declined to comment.“

Both sides of the political spectrum accuse the other of trafficking in fake news. Here is one shining example of fake news from CNN, in which they are presently entangled. Back in July, CNN’s Alisyn Camerota breathlessly announced that Michael Cohen was prepared to tell Robert Mueller, the special prosecutor, that Donald Trump knew in advance of the infamous  June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian female lawyer, who was supposed to have dirt on Hillary Clinton. It turned out that the woman wanted to lobby for a Russian adoption program. President Trump insists he never knew beforehand about the meeting. Yet, the CNN report on tv was accompanied by a statement from Jeffrey Toobin, legal analyst for CNN, that this information, if true, would prove Trump colluded with the Russian interference in the election. Smoking gun and all that stuff.

TOOBIN: “Well, let’s, of course, posit that his credibility is in question. But if Cohen is telling the truth about this, it completely changes our understanding of what Donald Trump’s role was — Donald Trump Sr., the president of the United States — in the relationship between his campaign and Russia. Because this meeting in Trump Tower is the clearest example we have so far of a direct connection between the Russian government and the Trump campaign.” 

CNN quoted an anonymous source and added that Cohen lawyer, the Clintonite Democrat activist, Lanny Davis declined to comment on the story.

Fake news. Lanny Davis, it turns out, was the anonymous source for the report, as he now admits. He also  has stated that he misspoke or spoke prematurely and that Cohen was not prepared to make the aforementioned claim. It should also be noted that Cohen had already testified under oath before Congress that he had no idea about Trump knowing about this meeting beforehand.

Of course, CNN is standing by its story. They pretty much have to. What are they going to say- “We lied to the American people about our source, and the source lied when he first made the claim”? (They claim to have had other sources.) CNN has been losing its credibility steadily over the past several years-not just because they have a liberal, anti-Republican agenda, but because their stories cannot be trusted.

Fake news in-fake news out.