CNN Just Responded to Donald Trump

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CNN just responded to Donald Trump

This morning Donald Trump had his first press conference in over 6 months where he caused another controversy by refusing to take questions from a CNN reporter. Trump shouted down the CNN reporter accusing the network of being “fake news.” Donald Trump was clearly angry over the CNN report that intelligence agencies have informed Trump about potentially compromising information that Russia has collected about him – including sensitive financial and even sexual information.

Trump was deliberately attempting to confuse the press and the public about the actual story here. He was attempting to connect the CNN report with with Buzzfeed’s more scandalous story that included what might be the intelligence documents in question.

However CNN shot back at Donald Trump saying, “CNN’s decision to publish carefully sourced reporting about the operations of our government is vastly different than Buzzfeed’s decision to publish unsubstantiated memos. The Trump team knows this. They are using Buzzfeed’s decision to deflect from CNN’s reporting, which has been matched by the other major news organizations.” 

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Trump has no good answer

It seems clear that Donald Trump and his team don’t have a good answer for the claims that Russia has collected compromising information about him and that he was briefed by U.S. intelligence agencies about the matter last week. So instead Trump and team are trying to undermine the credibility of CNN by confusing it with BuzzFeed’s decision to post a document that hasn’t been sourced or verified.

Here is the full response from CNN:

Read CNN’s response to Trump’s accusations of false reporting
From CNN
Updated 1:01 PM ET, Wed January 11, 2017
CNN’s decision to publish carefully sourced reporting about the operations of our government is vastly different than Buzzfeed’s decision to publish unsubstantiated memos. The Trump team knows this. They are using Buzzfeed’s decision to deflect from CNN’s reporting, which has been matched by the other major news organizations.

We are fully confident in our reporting. It represents the core of what the First Amendment protects, informing the people of the inner workings of their government; in this case, briefing materials prepared for President Obama and President-elect Trump last week.
We made it clear that we were not publishing any of the details of the 35-page document because we have not corroborated the report’s allegations. Given that members of the Trump transition team have so vocally criticized our reporting, we encourage them to identify, specifically, what they believe to be inaccurate.