In the wake of the Mueller Report's finding that President Trump did not collude with Russia ahead of the 2016 presidential election, many are now taking aim at the outlets that suggested the commander-in-chief may have committed treasonous offenses.
Sean Hannity was one of the first to lash out, tweeting: 'MSNBC CONSPIRACY NETWORK LIARS FAKE NEWS CNN LIARS NY TIMES WAPO LIARS.'
The fired-up Fox News host that added: 'Starting Monday we will hold every deep state official who abused power accountable. We will hold every fake news media liar member accountable. We will hold every liar in Congress accountable.'
Kellyanne Conway commented by responding to a Charlie Kirk tweet claiming that 13 stories a day were being written about the investigation, stating: 'Wasted ink. Imagine if a fraction of these stories were committed to providing Americans with "news they can use.""
She went on to state: '@POTUS has helped veterans, military, taxpayers, jobseekers, job creators, the unemployed, the uninsured, those languishing in prison, those ravaged by addiction.'
And First Son Donald Trump Jr called out CNN, MSNBC and Buzfeed before saying: 'Sadly, instead of apologizing for needlessly destabilizing the country in a transparent attempt to delegitimize the 2016 election, it’s clear that the Collusion Truthers in the media and the Democrat Party are only going to double down on their sick and twisted conspiracy theories moving forward.'
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The Mueller investigation lasted for 22 months, which is brief in comparison to the four-year investigation into then-president Bill Clinton by Kenneth Starr.
It dominated the news cycle however in a way that was very much unlike Starr's investigation, which resulted in articles of impeachment being brought against Clinton.
There were certainly a number of media stories that led the American public to believe this would just as catastrophic for Trump, but in the end his repeated statements that there was not Russian collusion appear to check out.
These are a few of the stories however that supporters of President Trump are singling out as the most egregious.
Busy bees: Trump supporters have long been critical of Buzzfeed, where the Steele Dossier (left) was first published in full; the reporting on a Cohen story (right) was very publicly rebuffed by the special counsel
Buzzfeed
Two of the most commonly cited stories that have been under attack were both published by Buzzfeed.
The first was the Steele dossier, which went online in full back in January 2017 - just days before President Trump's inauguration. It was the work of former British spy Christopher Steele, who complied claims suggesting that President Trump had formed close ties with the Russian government over the years.
It was also that dossier from which the infamous 'golden shower tape' allegation emerged, which was never once verified by any news outlet.
'The dossier, which is a collection of memos written over a period of months, includes specific, unverified, and potentially unverifiable allegations of contact between Trump aides and Russian operatives, and graphic claims of sexual acts documented by the Russians,' wrote Buzzfeed.
The second piece cited by trump supporters was published far more recently, and was the long piece over the course of the past 22 months to prompt a direct response from Mueller's office.
Buzzfeed, citing anonymous sources, stated that Mueller had evidence that President Trump told Michael Cohen to lie while being questioned by Congress.
The lie was tied to a potential business deal with Moscow in 2016, but once the story rain Mueller's office released an immediate response.
'BuzzFeed’s description of specific statements to the Special Counsel’s Office, and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office, regarding Michael Cohen’s Congressional testimony are not accurate,' said spokesman Peter Carr.
Despite that statement, Buzzfeed stood by its reporting and the anonymous sources who gave them the story.
That claim could of course still be true, though it seems far less likely given the memo released on Sunday by Attorney General William Barr.
Broken: CNN falsely claimed that Comey told Trump he was under investigation, and would testify to this (above)
Nope: A retraction had to be printed after a story ran claiming Anthony Scaramucci met with a wealthy Russian investor (above)
CNN
The cable news network is frequently the target of President Trump's attacks, and some of that outrage seems as though it may have been warranted in the wake of Mueller's findings.
CNN had already been forced to edit a story published in December 2017 that claimed Donald Trump Jr had been informed of a Wikileaks dump of damning emails 10 days before they appeared online.
That was completely false, and the email that CNN pointed to as proof of the cover-up actually showed the exact opposite.
Don Jr had learned about the emails the day after they went online, forcing CNN to edit its copy while still going with the headline: 'Email pointed Trump campaign to WikiLeaks documents.'
Just six months prior, three staff members handed in their resignation over another story that made bombshell allegations about a member of Trump's cabinet.
That piece cited an anonymous source who claimed that Anthony Scaramucci had met with the head of a Russian investment firm with over $10 billion in assets.
Scaramucci threatened a lawsuit, and shortly after the story was retracted for not meeting the network's standards.
That news prompted a suddenly affable Scaramucci to tweet: 'CNN did the right thing. Classy move. Apology accepted. Everyone makes mistakes. Moving on.'
That same month, CNN reported that James Comey would be contradicting a claim that was being made by President Trump at the time.
The president had repeatedly stated that Comey told him he was not under investigation when the two men met shortly after the inauguration.
CNN, citing an anonymous source, reported that Comey would testify to Congress that he did inform President Trump that he was under investigation.
'Trump has made a blanket claim that Comey told him multiple times that he was not under investigation,' declared CNN in a story that was reported on by four staffers.
'But one source said Comey is expected to explain to senators that those were much more nuanced conversations from which Trump concluded that he was not under investigation.'
One day later, Comey's prepared testimony was released ahead of his appearance.
'Prior to the January 6 meeting, I discussed with the FBI’s leadership team whether I should be prepared to assure President-Elect Trump that we were not investigating him personally. That was true; we did not have an open counter-intelligence case on him,' wrote Comey.
'We agreed I should do so if circumstances warranted. During our one-on-one meeting at Trump Tower, based on President Elect Trump’s reaction to the briefing and without him directly asking the question, I offered that assurance.'
The headline of the CNN piece was then changed from 'Comey expected to refute Trump' to 'Comey unlikely to judge on obstruction.'
Plummet: Sticks took a freefall after ABC News falsely reported Michael Flynn reached out to Russians during the election at the behest of Trump
ABC
The network's news team cut into programming back in December 2017 to announce that former national security adviser Michael Flynn would be testifying that Trump ordered him to make contact with the Russians during the election.
The impact of the story was immediate, with markets going into a freefall at what was a clear example of collusion between the president and Russia, as carried out by a member of his team.
Other news organizations were having difficulty verifying that scoop however, and in the end it proved to be false.
Flynn had in fact been prepared to testify that Trump asked him to make contact with Russian officials, but during the transition period.
That is not so much a bombshell as it is standard practice, and ABC responded by suspending reporter Brian Ross.
NBC
In August 2017, an NBC News report was released with the headline 'Manafort Notes From Russian Meet Contain Cryptic Reference to "Donations."'
That story claimed that Manafort had written the word 'donations' near a reference to the Republican National Committee in notes taken during the infamous Trumop Tower sit down that he, Donald Trump Jr. and Jared Kushner had with Russian lawyer lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya.
'Manafort's notes, typed on a smart phone and described by one briefed source as cryptic, were turned over to the House and Senate intelligence committees and to Special Counsel Robert Mueller. They contained the words "donations," and "RNC" in close proximity,' reported the network, citing two anonymous sources.
Soon after, it was reported that the word 'donor; was written, and not 'donation.'
In the end, the report was nothing more than innuendo that revealed no concrete evidence of any damning - let alone impeachable - behavior.
The following May there was another story that underwent some edits after NBC published a piece with the headline 'Feds tapped Trump lawyer Michael Cohen’s phones.'
Two anonymous sources said that federals agents were listening in on Cohen and already intercepted at least once call from the lawyer to the White House.
This report fell apart soon after due to the fact that federal agents only obtained a warrant allowing them to see who Cohen was contacting, not listen in one his conversations.
NBC forges on with their reporting even know, and today claimed that it had been known for weeks that there would be no charges brought against President Trump.
'NBC News is reporting that during a briefing on the Special Counsel investigation three weeks ago at the Justice Department, Special Counsel Robert Mueller told Attorney General William Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein that he would not be making a decision on obstruction, per a source familiar with the meeting,' read the report.
That information came from an anonymous source.
Hacks: Officials also said there was no clear evidence pointing to the claim that Russia was behind the hack reported by The Washington Post (above)
Washington Post
The Post has made a point of policing media stories, and its reporters are often the first to call out dubious claims ad unfounded allegations in the paper's Fact Checker feature.
It was the Post however that had its facts wrong back in December 2016 when it ran a story under the headline 'Russian hackers penetrated the U.S. electricity grid through a utility in Vermont.'
That story was soon amended however and later retracted with a niote from the paper stating that 'the computer at Burlington Electric that was hacked was not attached to the grid.'
Officials also said there was no clear evidence pointing to the claim that Russia was behind the hack.
Front and center: Over 1,000 pieces ran during the 22-month investigation, but on Monday the headline was clear: 'Mueller finds no Trump-Russia conspiracy'
New York Times
A prime target for Trump supporters, the Times wrote frequently about the Mueller report.
Over 1,000 pieces ran during the 22-month investigation, but on Monday the headline was clear: 'Mueller finds no Trump-Russia conspiracy.'
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Main photo article In the wake of the Mueller Report’s finding that President Trump did not collude with Russia ahead of the 2016 presidential election, many are now taking aim at the outlets that suggested the commander-in-chief may have committed treasonous offenses.
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