TRAIN WRECK! Brian Stelter BUSTED for pushing Rachel Maddow's fake news — and then it gets REALLY awkward

As Twitchy told you, last night, Rachel Maddow breathlessly reported that the White House had altered a video of Donald Trump’s joint presser with Vladimir Putin, calling the White House’s actions “a form of information warfare and it is being waged against us.” Just one teensy little problem: the White House had done no such thing.

But Brian Stelter wasn’t terribly concerned about that. Mr. “Reliable Sources” himself took Maddow’s story and ran with it:

More than a week since the presser, and this still hasn't been corrected. https://t.co/dVdKMc2B51

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) July 25, 2018

It’s bad enough that Stelter’s narrative got debunked by the friggin’ Washington Post. But it’s downright embarrassing that a White House reporter at Stelter’s own network wound up debunking it, too:

https://twitter.com/abbydphillip/status/1022115936411705344

https://twitter.com/abbydphillip/status/1022116229954371586

https://twitter.com/abbydphillip/status/1022116554526416898

https://twitter.com/abbydphillip/status/1022116779672383489

https://twitter.com/abbydphillip/status/1022117252366262273

https://twitter.com/abbydphillip/status/1022127580739190784

Ooooooooof.

https://twitter.com/MichaelCraig18A/status/1022157058962075655

12 hours later and Brian has yet to tell his followers that this MSNBC story is wrong.

Weird. https://t.co/OjYq6x86ac

— RBe (@RBPundit) July 25, 2018

Hi Brian, speaking of corrections, will you be correcting yourself (and Maddow) now that Washington Post has debunked this? Truth and accuracy do matter after all. https://t.co/sAJb8C1hg1

— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) July 25, 2018

Question: Does Brian Stelter talk to the other journalists who work at CNN? Because it doesn't seem he talks to the other journalists at CNN.https://t.co/tt8OljZBvf

If he had talked to @abbydphillip, he'd know that he shouldn't have posted this article 5 minutes ago. https://t.co/sfOmKxCb8J

— RBe (@RBPundit) July 25, 2018

BREAKING:

CNN Media Analyst, @BrianStelter, doesn't watch or read CNN.

— RBe (@RBPundit) July 25, 2018

I really hope the people at CNN who actually care about their credibility have a long hard talk with their management about what Brian Stelter is doing to the brand.

— RBe (@RBPundit) July 25, 2018

https://twitter.com/SnarkActual/status/1022161544057155585

Is someone documenting how badly @BrianStelter just owned himself?

— RBe (@RBPundit) July 25, 2018

Good Lord.

Look, this was a scoop from centrist, unbiased journalist Rachel Maddow. You can't blame Brian for sharing this without verifying it.

— BT (@back_ttys) July 25, 2018

Brian will watch Fox News all day long looking for even the most minute discrepancies in reporting but then quotes Rachel Maddow at will, doesn't correct her and doesn't correct himself. Great work there "Reliable Sources"

— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) July 25, 2018

Something tells me there won't be much holding himself to fake news accountability in his news letter or on his show with this one.

— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) July 25, 2018

Something tells us you’re right.

Washington Post: No the WH didn't omit details from Helsinki transcript
Joe Scarborough: My MSNBC colleague got this wrong
Brian Stelter: LEEEEEEEEEEERRRRROOYYY JEEEEENKKKINSS!!!!!

— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) July 25, 2018