The president-elect is really taking this “fake news” thing and running with it — again.
He just fired off another angry tweet at CNN over their coverage of a leak of documents alleging damning, deeply set ties to Russia on the part of the president-elect. These ties allegedly include a years long intelligence exchange agreement between Trump and the Kremlin and the Kremlin’s possession of information that could potentially be used to blackmail the soon to be president at some point in the future.
Two days after CNN first broke the story about all of this, on Thursday morning, Trump claimed on Twitter that the network “is in a total meltdown with their FAKE NEWS because their ratings are tanking since election and their credibility will soon be gone!”
.@CNN is in a total meltdown with their FAKE NEWS because their ratings are tanking since election and their credibility will soon be gone!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 12, 2017
Here’s the thing. CNN never reported fake news.
CNN’s Tuesday report on the leaked documents makes abundantly clear their nature as unconfirmed allegations. Yes, Buzzfeed News later ran with the story and published the full allegations themselves, but, even then, Buzzfeed didn’t report anything “fake” either.
The allegations might not be true — intelligence agencies have reportedly been working for months to figure out their veracity — but they are real allegations, nonetheless.
Trump, however, has taken the opportunity given him by the unsavory CNN report on him to irrationally bash the freedom of the press and freedom of speech again like he has long been fond of doing. He refused to take a question from CNN’s Jim Acosta at his Wednesday morning press conference, instead calling Acosta’s network “fake news.”
His attacks on the press have been so virulent that, at times, physical threats have been lobbed at members of the press by his supporters. Trump has also spoken fondly of the possibility of opening up more avenues to sue the press under his presidential administration.
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