NewsBusters
By Kristine Marsh
July 6, 2017 11:23 AM EDT
Even after two leading liberal media outlets reported last week that a major media talking point on the Russia investigation was actually false, CNN still refuses to believe it.
Thursday morning, several CNN journalists and even one MSNBC journalist pounced on Trump for asserting that “only three or four” intelligence agencies actually concluded that Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election. Ever skeptical of anything Trump says, the journalists didn’t even bother to see if Trump was right before they called him out for it.
If they had done even the most minimal of research, they would’ve seen that Trump was only citing media reports from the New York Times and AP. Last week both media outlets quietly backtracked from what they had reported for months on end, that “17” intelligence agencies had contributed to a report saying that Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election.
During a live report from Warsaw on New Day Thursday morning, CNN’s Jim Acosta mocked Trump for repeating the Times’ report, unwittingly calling it “fake news:”
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