A retracted Trump-Russia collusion story by CNN’s “ambitious new investigative unit” has resulted in the resignation of three of the networks’ more widely-respected journalists.
In a sequence of events that’s proving to be bigger news than the since-deleted story purported to be, on Thursday CNN published what was supposed to be another Russiagate “bombshell.” The report, written by investigative journalist Thomas Frank, alleged that Donald Trump associate Anthony Scaramucci was under investigation by the Senate Intelligence Committee for alleged contact with a $10-billion Russian investment fund just days before Trump’s inauguration. The entire piece was based on a claim by a single, unnamed source. On Friday, CNN quietly deleted the “bombshell,” a move noticed by BuzzFeed, which questioned CNN about the mysteriously disappearing piece. “More than an hour later, an editor’s note appeared on CNN’s website,” Buzzfeed reported. “A company representative sent BuzzFeed News a link to the note, but did not answer other questions about why the story was removed.”
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