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The Anatomy of Another CNN Story Fail
by Kevin Ryan

• July 26: CNN made following bombshell claim:

“Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, claims that then-candidate Trump knew in advance about the June 2016 meeting in Trump Tower in which Russians were expected to offer his campaign dirt on Hillary Clinton, sources with knowledge tell CNN. Cohen is willing to make that assertion to special counsel Robert Mueller, the sources said.

“Cohen’s claim would contradict repeated denials by Trump, Donald Trump Jr., their lawyers and other administration officials who have said that the President knew nothing about the Trump Tower meeting until he was approached about it by The New York Times in July 2017.”https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/26/politics/michael-cohen-donald-trump-june-2016-meeting-knowledge/index.html

• July 27-28: The news sparked a rush by other media outlets to confirm it. One by one — from NBC News to CBS News to the Washington Post and New York Post — they did. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/07/27/the-real-reason-cnns-michael-cohen-scoop-might-be-dangerous-for-trump/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/07/27/michael-cohens-latest-big-allegation-and-the-growing-list-of-team-trumps-false-scandal-denials/

• August 22: On CNN, host Anderson Cooper asked Cohen’s lawyer Lanny Davis about the story. Davis replied that Cohen does NOT have any knowledge about whether Trump knew about the meeting beforehand. “I think the reporting of the story got mixed up in the course of a criminal investigation. We were not the source of the story.”
https://youtu.be/uvZsXiQ8uko

• August 23: The New York Post reveals that LANNY DAVIS was the source they used to CONFIRM the initial CNN story which Davis was now denying.https://nypost.com/2018/08/23/cohen-told-congress-he-doesnt-know-if-donald-knew-about-trump-tower-meeting/

• August 26: The Washington Post reveals that Davis was their source for confirming the CNN story as well. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/attorney-for-michael-cohen-backs-away-from-confidence-that-cohen-has-information-about-trumps-knowledge-on-russian-efforts/2018/08/26/09d7f26e-a876-11e8-97ce-cc9042272f07_story.html

• August 26: In a tweet, CNN says it stands by its original story. “We stand by our story, and are confident in our reporting of it.” https://mobile.twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1033882163295469568

• August 27: In an interview for BuzzFeed, Lanny Davis now admits HE was the source for the original CNN story, and had lied when he said on Anderson Cooper’s show that he wasn’t. “I made a mistake,” Davis said.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stevenperlberg/lanny-davis-cnn-trump-tower-story

• August 28: CNN finally acknowledges the growing controversy over their article, in a piece entitled “Attorney for Michael Cohen keeps changing his story on Trump Tower meeting”. In it, CNN says that Lanny Davis now admits to being a source for their original article. Yet CNN’s mea culpa leaves out the fact that their original article stated “Contacted by CNN, one of Cohen’s attorneys, Lanny Davis, declined to comment”, which, in hindsight, was an obvious fabrication by the network.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/28/politics/lanny-davis-trump-tower-michael-cohen/index.html

SO TO RECAP: On July 26, CNN wrote a “bombshell” article claiming that anonymous sources told them Michael Cohen revealed Donald Trump had advance knowledge of the Trump Tower meeting with Russians to discuss dirt on Hillary. CNN said they reached out to Cohen’s lawyer Lanny Davis, but that he declined to comment, making it seem like Davis wasn’t the source. Then after the Washington Post, New York Post, and many others claimed they confirmed the CNN story, Davis said the story was wrong, saying the sources were wrong.

Turns out, DAVIS was the source for the story and for all the confirmations of it.

 

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