Trump blasts CNN over anonymous sourcing in Cohen report

[DonViejo]

Source: Politico



By STEPHANIE MURRAY 08/29/2018 09:55 AM EDT

President Donald Trump took aim Tuesday at CNN over information it reported last month that relied on anonymous sources, slamming all outlets that rely on such sources and labeling reports based on them "fiction made up by the Fake News reporters."

Trump made specific reference to a CNN story published last month with the headline "Cohen claims Trump knew in advance of 2016 Trump Tower meeting," a reference to a meeting between Trump campaign officials and a Russian attorney who had been billed as possessing damaging information about Hillary Clinton sourced from the Kremlin. That report attributed its information to unnamed "sources with knowledge."

Lanny Davis, an attorney for Cohen, Trump's former personal lawyer, has since admitted to BuzzFeed that he was a source for the CNN article and has told the Washington Post that he is no longer sure about assertions he made to CNN and other outlets.

"The fact is that many anonymous sources don’t even exist. They are fiction made up by the Fake News reporters," the president wrote on Twitter. "Look at the lie that Fake CNN is now in. They got caught red handed! Enemy of the People!"

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/29/trump-cnn-lanny-davis-michael-cohen-801580

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

1. Sounds like someone had an elevator discussion w Lanny about his kneecaps, wife and kids.

[paulrevere2018]

2. Perhaps the news outlets should just use "Many people are saying" rather than quote an anonymous

source.

[riversedge]

4. those many people would be rocks in trumps head bumbling around the empty space.

[JaneQPublic]

3. So says the dude who uses anonymous sources daily.

"Everyone is saying it."

"Everyone is talking about it."

"An extremely credible source called me..."

"I've been told by the best experts that..."

Plus, he loves anonymous sources when they're favorable to him and has retweeted Fox News articles using anonymous sources.

Besides, he served as an anonymous source for years in the NYC and celebrity/gossip media markets.

[SWBTATTReg]

5. Something got his attention and ticked him off!!

Great! Anything that ticks our 'great leader' off is always welcome...maybe it'll provoke something else...

[KPN]

6. So says David Dennison, aka

JOHN Barron, JOHN Miller, etc.

[.99center]

7. CNN, in a statement to BuzzFeed, said "we stand by our story

CNN, in a statement to BuzzFeed, said "we stand by our story, and are confident in our reporting of it." The network said Davis was not the only source to confirm the information contained in the story.

[Mc Mike]

8. Leaking and flipping equal bad.

Conspiracy, treaason, election law felonies equal no big deal.

The repugs are the law and order party.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

9. This is the same man who said -- without evidence -- Obama had wired his penthouse.

He also said -- without evidence -- that 3 million illegal immigrants had voted for Hillary.

He's never backed down from either of those assertions, even when they have been proven to be demonstrably false. When the news media are wrong, they admit it.

Usually, though, when they use anonymous sources they verify the facts with several people.

Thus lies the difference between someone to whom the facts matter, and a con man.

[bluestarone]

10. EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!!!

What's RUMP going to say when it's VERIFIED!!!!!!!!!!!!!