It got funnier by the minute yesterday as CNN and other sources made their fake news story even WORSE by denying they ever said it was a "secret meeting".
still.
Here's how CNN went from baaaaaaaad fake news to really really baaaaaaaaaaaaad fake news.
Check this out: Oh heavens my face hurts from laughing! Cillizza tried to claim that NO ONE claimed that this was a "secret meeting".
Whoa geeze! That didn't stand up.
"On Twitter, Cillizza took his fake news even further by Tweeting a link to his fake news CNN piece: “Again, NO ONE is saying the meeting was private or secret. NO ONE.”
Again, NO ONE is saying the meeting was private or secret. NO ONE.
Donald Trump is trying to pull a bait and switch on his 2nd meeting with Putin - CNNPolitics.com William of Covfefe on Twitter
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN)
July 19, 2017
Interestingly, Cillizza’s inaccurate assertion that “NO ONE” said the meeting was “private or secret” is debunked by, among other places, his employer CNN.
On the same day that Cillizza published his fake news—Wednesday, July 19—two different CNN anchors contradicted his assertion that nobody said the meeting was “secret” live on air on CNN.
Brooke Baldwin, a CNN anchor, twice referred to the meeting as a “secret sitdown” between Trump and Putin—and even at one point asked, “Why didn’t we know about this?”
Another time, Baldwin said live on CNN, “These two presidents, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, did not disclose a second meeting until now.”
Kate Bolduan, another CNN anchor, also repeated the line that it was a “secret” meeting between Trump and Putin.
Bolduan on Wednesday called it a “secret and second sitdown between the president and Russian president Vladimir Putin. Why wasn’t the meeting revealed? What was discussed? And who knows what really was said?”
Also on Wednesday, Bolduan described the meeting a second time live on CNN as “secret.”
She called it “a secret sitdown between the President and Vladimir Putin. Only three people know what they said at all, what was talked about, how unusual is this? Did it break any rules? Can it happen again? And why wasn’t it revealed that they met for a second time?”
CNN’s own anchors are not the only people who debunk CNN’s Cillizza. His old colleague at the
Washington Post’s The Fix, Aaron Blake, discredits him as well. On Twitter on Wednesday morning, Blake described the meeting as “secret” when he asked: “Why did Trump meet secretly with Putin?”
Why did Trump meet secretly with Putin? Here are 3 theories.
Analysis | Why did Trump meet with Putin again? Here are three possibilities.
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake)
July 19, 2017
The headline of Blake’s piece for the
Washington Post section that Cillizza used to edit linked in that Tweet also refers to the meeting as “secret.”
Salon’s Matthew Rozsa, in a headline,
called it a “secret” meeting between Trump and Putin."
More at link:
Very Fake News Scandal Erupts Again: CNN’s Cillizza’s Latest Attack on Trump Debunked by His Own Network - Breitbart
Very Fake News Scandal Erupts Again: CNN’s Cillizza’s Latest Attack on Trump Debunked by His Own Network
) and the bloody fools still ran with the talking points they'd been fed. 
