‘What about all the other phony stories they do?’ Trump lashes out at CNN after ‘massive f**k up’ story linking official to Russia is retracted and three employees are forced out
Three CNN employees resigned after the network deleted story from its website
‘What about all the other phony stories they do?’ President Trump tweeted
He claimed CNN ‘is looking at big management changes now that they got caught falsely pushing their phony Russian stories.’
Thomas Frank, the story’s writer, Eric Lichtblau, an editor and Lex Haris, who oversaw CNN’s investigative unit, all resigned Monday
Donald Trump Jr called the story ‘the biggest fake news scandal in the network’s history’
CNN issued a retraction after deleting a story from its website on Friday
The story’s lone anonymous source claimed there were possible ties between Russia and Anthony Scaramucci – one of Trump’s transition team members
One source told BuzzFeed the story was a ‘massive, massive f*** up and people will be disciplined’
By DAVID MARTOSKO, US POLITICAL EDITOR\
DAILYMAIL.COM
27 June 2017
Donald Trump launched a new attack on CNN Tuesday after three of its journalists were forced to resign over an anti-Trump story that the network retracted.
‘Wow, CNN had to retract big story on “Russia,” with 3 employees forced to resign. What about all the other phony stories they do? FAKE NEWS!’ the president tweeted.
Trump also retweeted a Photoshopped version of CNN’s iconic logo – remade to read ‘FNN – Fake News Network.’
And in a followup tweet, he wrote: ‘Fake News CNN is looking at big management changes now that they got caught falsely pushing their phony Russian stories. Ratings way down!’
The three CNN employees lost their jobs after the outlet deleted a story from its website that claimed there were possible ties between Russia and an associate of President Donald Trump.
In the wake of their resignations, Donald Trump Jr. called for CNN’s president Jeff Zucker to publicly explain, saying the story is ‘the biggest fake news scandal in the network’s history.’
Thomas Frank, Eric Lichtblau and Lex Haris were all involved in CNN’s new investigative unit and left the company Monday.
Frank wrote the deleted story, Lichtblau was an editor in the unit and Haris oversaw the unit.
‘In the aftermath of the retraction of a story published on CNN.com, CNN has accepted the resignations of the employees involved in the story’s publication,’ a spokesperson said.
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