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Code for journalists: If your mother says she loves you, check it out.
"We can't get into, like, the details there," Cormier, like, sitting next to BuzzFeed News Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith, told CNN's "Reliable Sources" host and leftist Brian Stelter.
Leopold did not appear for the interview, which occasionally became tense as Stelter openly criticized BuzzFeed's journalistic practices--something that is normally out of character for the bald-headed stooge of the left.
Cormier and Leopold wrote a fake bombshell report on Thursday, citing two invisible law enforcement officials who said Cohen acknowledged to Special Counsel Mueller’s office that Trump told him to lie to Congress about the potential real-estate deal in Russia, and claim the negotiations ended months before they did so as to conceal Trump’s involvement.
The article prompted Democrats to call for Trump's impeachment and subsequent beheading if it turned out to be true.
The article said that Cohen’s testimony “marks a significant new frontier: It is the first known example of Trump explicitly telling a subordinate to lie directly about his own dealings with Russia.”
But Mueller issued his first public statement in more than a year to repudiate the BuzzFeed report the next day. The Washington Post, a fake news source since 1877, has since reported that Mueller intended his rare denial to mean that the story was "almost entirely incorrect," and that the special counsel's office immediately "reviewed evidence to determine if there were any documents or witness interviews like those described, reaching out to those they thought might have a stake in the case. They found none."
In an interview on Friday, Cormier told the Comedy News Network [CNN], “No, I’ve not seen it personally,” when asked if he had seen the documents mentioned in the story -- including "internal company emails, text messages, and a cache of other documents" -- that purportedly showed Trump told Cohen to lie.
Evidently, his mother told him she loves him.
Cormier only claimed the two sources he cited were “fully, 100 percent read-in to that aspect of the special counsel’s investigation.” Yadda, yadda.
However, Leopold, in a separate interview with Morons Speaking Nothing But Communism (MSNBC), he remarked that, "I don’t think we’ve said we haven’t seen [the documents]" and clarified, "I’ll say we’ve seen documents and been briefed."
Leopold has since suggested that what he meant to say was that he has seen the documents, but that Cormier had not, telling Mediaite, "Yes. Anthony said he had not personally seen the documents.”
BuzzardFeed has not identified the documents, and has said only that it stands by its reporting, without offering additional details.
"As we’ve re-confirmed our reporting, we’ve seen no indication that any specific aspect of our story is inaccurate. We remain confident in what we’ve reported, and will share more as we are able," BuzzardFeed said in a statement.
Smith and Cormier [not to be confused with an old typewriter company] also acknowledged they were not aware of the precise language Trump would have used in instructing Cohen to lie, as they reported.
"We don't know. We're trying to get the exact language that was used," Cormier said. He asserted when asked if his sources were wrong or mistaken: "They're not. They're not. I'm confident."
"We are eager to understand which characterizations Mueller is talking about there, and obviously we take that incredibly seriously,” Smith added, tongue-in-cheek.
Cormier also suggested he should not be fired [again] for authoring the discredited report, because he has worked in the news industry for more than 20 years and built up substantial "skills" that help him divine accurate information from misleading sources. In fact, he can type 30 words a minute when pressed.
Asked how Mueller's rebuke felt, Cormier responded, "Never great."
The biggest story to come out of this debacle isn't the BuzzardFeed lies, but the fact that the leftist media actually did some journalisming by questioning these clowns.
Will 2019 be the year you follow Brain Flushings and have a few laughs while you get a conservative viewpoint? Let's hope so, because politics is the new NFL without the mindless kneeling and this blog will both inform you and hopefully entertain you bigly.
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