Media's Fake News - CNN: Don Trump Jr. Wikileaks Connection

By Douglas V. Gibbs
Author, Speaker, Instructor, Radio Host

The anti-Trump hysteria has the liberal left media so foaming at the mouth that they will knee-jerk jump at everything they can in the hopes that it hurts the Trump Presidency.  The latest false news that they hoped was real:

 
FAKE NEWS: CNN Reports Bombshell Exclusive In Russia Probe. Gets Key Fact Wrong, Kills Entire Story.

Following ABC falsely claiming Trump directed Flynn to contact the Russians during the 2016 campaign, the New York Times falsely reported K.T. McFarland lied to Congress about General Flynn's communications with the Russians, and multiple outlets in the biased liberal media reporting that Deutsche Bank received a subpoena from Mueller targeting Trump's bank records, CNN has no made their own error, reporting key details of an alleged offer made to Donald Trump Jr. in September 2016 regarding a batch of documents from WikiLeaks.

While the claim that Trump Jr. was sent an email from Wikileaks was correct, the date was wrong, totally killing the idea behind their claim. They reported the email was dated September 4, 2016, from a person named Michael J. Erickson which included a link to WikiLeaks documents and a decryption key to access the purportedly stolen emails. The date CNN reported, however, was incorrect. The actual date of the email was September 14.

The date of the email is crucial because with the actual date being September 14, it turns out that was a day after the information in question was made public by the group WikiLeaks a day earlier, undermining the key premise of CNN’s story that the Trump campaign was in cahoots with WikiLeaks to bring down the Clinton campaign.

CNN’s report also insinuated that Erickson could have been tied to a “Russian front group” – a claim that again appears to be a stretch, as the Daily Caller reported.

In addition to all that, Alan S. Futerfas, an attorney for Trump Jr., told The Post that Trump Jr. never even responded to the email.

“The email was never read or responded to — and the House Intelligence Committee knows this,” Futerfas told The Post. “It is profoundly disappointing that members of the House Intelligence Committee would deliberately leak a document, with the misleading suggestion that the information was not public, when they know that there is not a scintilla of evidence that Mr. Trump Jr. read or responded to the email.”

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