'Is this real?' BuzzFeed tries to make a buck off Trump 'dossier' train wreck

Doug P. | 4:43 PM on January 11, 2017

https://twitter.com/CuffyMeh/status/819286799067574272

BuzzFeed’s response to having published a 35-page dossier of unsubstantiated dirt on Donald Trump has been bad enough (editor-in-chief Ben Smith admitted the report contained “explosive but unverified” allegations), but it just got worse.

As a result of the “dossier” story, at Donald Trump’s press conference earlier today, the President-Elect referred to Buzzfeed as a “steaming pile of garbage.” Even though their story proved to be full of holes, BuzzFeed’s not shying away from using Trump’s slam as a money-making opportunity:

https://twitter.com/DylanByers/status/819284909218926592

Buzzfeed Is Selling ‘Failing Pile of Garbage’ Shirts Now https://t.co/dyLmX0aQyY pic.twitter.com/0YweybfYrO

— Mediaite (@Mediaite) January 11, 2017

#Facepalm

https://twitter.com/MikeCiandella/status/819287448916205574

for fucks sake was this all a marketing ploy https://t.co/FKYuQqIl1A

— Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair ? (@senatorshoshana) January 11, 2017

Maybe some of Buzzfeed’s rapid-response t-shirt designers should be reassigned as fact checkers.

https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/819285157332983808
https://twitter.com/EF517_V2/status/819288317535649792

"Guys we just completely torched the credibility of every journalist that works for us. How should we handle this?"

"I know, T-Shirts"

— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) January 11, 2017