President Donald Trump pressed his attack against the media Tuesday after three CNN employees resigned due to a story the network had to retract about Trump’s campaign and its alleged Russian ties.
Wow, CNN had to retract big story on "Russia," with 3 employees forced to resign. What about all the other phony stories they do? FAKE NEWS!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 27, 2017
“Wow, CNN had to retract big story on “Russia,” with 3 employees forced to resign. What about all the other phony stories they do? FAKE NEWS!” Trump tweeted.
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Fake News CNN is looking at big management changes now that they got caught falsely pushing their phony Russian stories. Ratings way down!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 27, 2017
So they caught Fake News CNN cold, but what about NBC, CBS & ABC? What about the failing @nytimes & @washingtonpost? They are all Fake News!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 27, 2017
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“Fake News CNN is looking at big management changes now that they got caught falsely pushing their phony Russian stories. Ratings way down!” he added.
Later, Trump tweeted: “So they caught Fake News CNN cold, but what about NBC, CBS & ABC? What about the failing @nytimes & @washingtonpost? They are all Fake News!”
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— Jeff (@JeffTutorials) June 26, 2017
Trump also retweeted an image of CNN’s logo with the letter F in place of the C, making it the “Fake News Network.”
Last Thursday, citing a “congressional source,” CNN alleged that Anthony Scaramucci, a Trump fundraiser and transition team member, was being investigated by the Senate Intelligence Committee for ties to the Russian Direct Investment Fund.
A day later, a terse editor’s note replaced the story.
“That story did not meet CNN’s editorial standards and has been retracted,” CNN wrote. “Links to the story have been disabled.”
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On Monday, CNN said Reporter Thomas Frank, editor Eric Lichtblau and Lex Haris, who oversaw the investigations unit that produced the story, had left CNN.
CNN has not commented further, although the network did apologize to Scaramucci.
.@CNN did the right thing. Classy move. Apology accepted. Everyone makes mistakes. Moving on. https://t.co/lyVajCKNHx
— Anthony Scaramucci (@Scaramucci) June 24, 2017
Scaramucci weighed in on Twitter Saturday morning about the network’s decision to pull the story, calling it a “classy move.”
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