After CNN was forced to correct their most recent fact-challenged story, Donald Trump Jr. took to Twitter and hammered the cable news net. After Trump Jr’s criticism of CNN, this angle taken by the Washington Post, and it caught the eyes of many:
CNN botched a story about Trump Jr. — who claims, without evidence, that reporters "got played" https://t.co/8J80mGs8xt
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) December 9, 2017
Well isn’t that a turn of events? Notice how the antagonist now isn’t CNN?
The Washington Post is really a incredible collection of imbeciles. CNN launches another fake news “bombshell” and the buffoons at the WaPo try to blame Don Jr. This is really a special kind of stupid. https://t.co/mtNwlxYRL0
— Dan Bongino (@dbongino) December 9, 2017
Haha, WaPo finds a way to turn this into a critique of Trump Jr. https://t.co/8tHmdpbZrm
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) December 9, 2017
The Post’s headline at least earns a “Junior #FakeNews” gold star for effort.
Apparently @DonaldJTrumpJr is somehow in the wrong for being slandered by CNN with a completely false story. I'm getting dizzy from all this fake news spinning! https://t.co/TfrgoSlWFN
— Stefan Molyneux (@StefanMolyneux) December 9, 2017
"Without evidence" lol https://t.co/6idQsWA7Tl
— Matthew ? (@MatthewinBklyn) December 10, 2017
Without evidence? The story was fake. Keep defending it and you dig yourself a deeper grave. #FakeNews https://t.co/weXbTac8d0
— Eric Daugherty (@realEricDaugh) December 9, 2017
Incredible headline. @FAIRmediawatch https://t.co/xTgPNVMxnZ
— Sam Husseini (@samhusseini) December 10, 2017
Is this really how you want to phrase this, WaPo? Either CNN "got played"- or it was purposeful. Trump Jr's being charitable here. https://t.co/tyXYZc7yk8
— John Salmon (@JohnSalmon859) December 10, 2017
The irony being CNN and others forgot to bring evidence in the first place https://t.co/iXBTZJMlbb
— Andre (@Potatomed) December 9, 2017
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