New York – President-elect Donald Trump lashed out at a reporter from CNN, refusing to take a question from him and calling his news organization and Buzzfeed “fake news.”
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CNN reporter Jim Acosta pushed back at Wednesday’s news conference, demanding an opportunity to ask a question.
“I am not going to give you a question, you are fake news,” Trump said.
A U.S. official says top intelligence officials last week told Trump about an unsubstantiated report that Russia had compromising personal and financial information about him. The story was first reported by CNN Tuesday. Buzzfeed later published a summary of those allegations.
The summary of the allegations was separate from a classified assessment of Russia’s suspected attempts to meddle in the U.S. presidential election.
Trump told Acosta, “Your organization is terrible, I’m not going to give you a question.”
Acosta responded, “Mr. President-elect, that’s not appropriate.”
The news conference opened with his spokesman, Sean Spicer, slamming a “political witch hunt” following reports published that Russian operatives claim to have compromising personal and financial information about Trump.
Trump angrily denounced the publishing and attacked U.S. intelligence agencies over the leak of the information.
“I think it was disgraceful, disgraceful that the intelligence agencies allowed any information that turned out to be so false and fake out there,” Trump told a news conference. He called the dossier that makes salacious claims about him “fake news” and “phony stuff.”
“I think it’s a disgrace … That’s something that Nazi Germany would have done,” the Republican said days ahead of his inauguration.
Wow!!
I thought I loved him, now its ten times more!!
Thats a leader who doesnt cave in to low live cowards!!!
To all the Clinton News Network supporters that will complain, please remember that Obama threw FOX News off Air Force One.
What comes around goes around!!!
Bravo for Trump; he should have had Acosta thrown out, by the Secret Service, as Acosta repeatedly kept shouting out, in an effort to disrupt the proceedings.
CNN is fake news.
Especially after CNN hired Cory, former Trump camp manager, as a commentator even though Cory was still on Trump campaign payroll.
The dossier contains unproven information about close coordination between Trump’s inner circle and Russians.
The REAL FACTS are that there was close coordination between Trump’s inner close circle and CNN.
Finally a republican that bits back. The fake news media just got ther clock cleaned by a true master
their own game.
Hurray. finally a guy that isnt scared of bad publicity. I love the way he tweets his way through. dont need the press. he is his own press release agency.
CBS, NBC, ABC and CNN are all, fake which true Tass and Saudi news
So the soon to be Liar-in-Chief threw a tantrum again.
Clinton news network is fake news.
Tell Wolf to still see if he can find more votes for hiLAIRy!
He could have taught Nixon a thing or two about suppressing the press when they were investigating Watergate.
I wonder which ammendment he’ll attack next.
This is frightening. The man is destroying the fabric of our free country in front of our eyes. Dictators use same populist tactics to silence, dismiss and create enemy in the free press. This wealthy pig will cause so much damage to our nation that we’ll turn into another Turkey, Venezuela, Russia etc.. where people have no trust in leaders, no trust in free press, no trust in government.
Bush would never do anything like this. Nixon didn’t do anything like this. Trump the unhinged, short fuse will call everything fake news that’s an obstacle to him.
The press and especially CNN needs to show proper Kovid and respect to the president elect.
Never heard of this no named reporter from CNN. But now that he had his 15 minutes of fame he needs to move on.