Donald Trump upstaged Barack Obama again — this time during the lame duck’s farewell speech.
While many liberals were panting over Obama’s long goodbye, Trump dominated the headlines amid unsubstantiated rumors that Russia has “compromising” information on him.
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CNN stirred the rumor mill by claiming Russia had a secret blackmail dossier on Trump. Leftist website BuzzFeed followed up by publishing the unverified dossier that other media outlets refused to publish because they couldn’t verify the claims made in it.
Buzzfeed even admitted in a disclaimer that the claims against Trump were erroneous and unconfirmed: “The allegations are unverified, and the report contains errors.”
But naturally, the liberal “fake news” purveyor published the dossier anyway in a cheap bid for page views.
BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith admitted: “There is serious reason to doubt the allegations.”
Here’s the note I sent to @buzzfeednews staff this evening pic.twitter.com/OcAloWzVzb
— Ben Smith (@BuzzFeedBen) January 11, 2017
While the left was obviously hoping these unsubstantiated claims would damage Trump, the opposite happened, with both liberal and conservative journalists blasting the shoddy reporting of CNN and BuzzFeed.
So instead of fawning over Obama’s race-baiting farewell speech, most people were discussing Trump’s fake dossier and “golden showers” (a reference to claims that Trump had hired prostitutes to urinate on a hotel bed that the Obamas once stayed in).
Dare I say, leave it to Trump to piss all over Obama’s farewell speech night.
— CilantroNate (@CilantroNate) January 11, 2017
President Obama deserves so much better than to have his farewell address hijacked by news about Trump and his golden showers.
— Andi Zeisler (@andizeisler) January 10, 2017
Meanwhile, the Kremlin trashed Buzzfeed and CNN’s reports as “no more than fiction,” and denied it had kept a blackmail dossier on Trump.
Kremlin denies claims it kept a blackmail dossier on Trump saying the reports are ‘no more than fiction’ https://t.co/5GCIaRRhTG
— Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) January 11, 2017
Even radical leftists like Julia Ioffe, who suggested Trump was having sex with his daughter Ivanka, refused to publish the story, saying it was “impossible to verify.”
Okay, fellow journalists, raise your hand if you too were approached with this story. (I was.)
— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) January 10, 2017
@mathewi Because it was impossible to verify. (I tried.)
— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) January 10, 2017
You know a report is FAKE NEWS when anti-Trump Mother Jones editor David Corn is defending Trump.
“Even Donald Trump deserves journalistic fairness,” Corn tweeted.
3. I accurately characterized the memos-this is important stuff-but didn’t publish details. Even Donald Trump deserves journalistic fairness
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) January 11, 2017
ABC News reporter Steve Irvin tweeted: “Real journalists have standards.”
Mic drop. pic.twitter.com/tyj7NW7vD9
— KINSEY SCHOFIELD (@kinseyschofield) January 11, 2017
WikiLeaks, which has a 100% record of accurate authentication, also weighed in.
WikiLeaks has a 100% record of accurate authentication. We do not endorse Buzzfeed’s publication of a document which is clearly bogus.
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) January 11, 2017
Trump attorney Michael Cohen — who was accused in the fake news report of having traveled to Prague to talk to Kremlin officials in August 2016 — has never been to Prague.So there you have it from one horse’s mouth.
I have never been to Prague in my life. #fakenews pic.twitter.com/CMil9Rha3D
— Michael Cohen (@MichaelCohen212) January 11, 2017
One tweep said the “blackmail dossier” was a 4chan prank, and the anti-Trump media fell for it — hook, line and sinker.
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