Potato Panic! Brian Stelter Hilariously Attempts Damage Control in Wake of CNN’s Iranian Bombing Lies

CNN is trying to save face after getting caught lying about President Donald Trump’s successful bombing of nuclear facilities in Iran. It started with CNN running with known liar, Natasha ('Hunter Biden’s laptop is Russian disinformation') Bertrand’s leaked top secret assessment story, which she purposely misframed by not reporting that the intelligence was ‘low confidence.’ The rest of the ‘fake news’ media immediately spread that story to hurt Trump and make it look like the U.S. military failed its mission. In other words, just the kind of lies we’ve come to expect from the Democrat Party hacks at CNN and across the legacy media.

Now CNN’s resident potato, Brian Stelter, is frantically doing damage control. (WATCH)

🚨 JUST IN: CNN’s Brian Stelter is running insane damage control live on air after Trump and Pete Hegseth proved them wrong on the Iran leak story

“CNN did not report that this mission was a failure […] We just don't know all the facts yet."

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— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) June 26, 2025

Wow. He sounds nervous. I wonder if phone calls were made to tell him to clean up the mess or find a new job??
— LetsGoBFLO (@HistorianUSA1) June 26, 2025

A dollar short. Do you hear him. So panicked. Good luck CNN.
— DeEtt Brault (@DeEtt40) June 26, 2025

When backpedaling becomes the broadcast, the damage is already done.
“Not knowing” isn’t journalism-it’s spin on standby. 📺#MediaAccountability #IranLeakStory
— Elar Realm (@ElarRealm) June 26, 2025

As with all media debacles, this could have all been prevented by practicing actual journalism.

Commenters note that Stelter, in his rush to rewrite what happened, is claiming CNN ran with the story knowing it didn’t have all the facts. Yes, that’s so much better, Brian!

So, if they don't know the facts, why are they running a story on it? I was taught in journalism class to gather the facts first, then write the story. Doesn't CNN know anything about journalism?
— Freddy (@Freddymtv2077) June 26, 2025

CNN did not report that this mission was a failure […] We just don't know all the facts yet."
— ActivistJerry💫 (@ActivistJerry) June 26, 2025

The captain needs to be fired, but so does the entire crew. There is no hope for CNN or any of the legacy media. To even have a sliver of a chance at winning back viewers, they would have to fire ALL reporters, anchors, writers, and producers. That’s simply never going to happen. Instead, we get the pleasure of watching the captain and crew all going under as viewership sinks to the bottom.