Mark Levin: Mueller’s Office Only Released Statement on Junk Buzzfeed Report to ‘Cover Their Asses’ (VIDEO)
BuzzFeed Leads with Fake News ‘Collusion’ Story Hours After Refuted by Mueller
Buzzfeednews.com on Friday evening led with a report on Democrat lawmakers pledging to investigate President Donald Trump over its report claiming the president directed Michael Cohen, his former personal attorney, to make false statements to Congress — hours after the office of special counsel Robert Mueller denied the story’s veracity, describing it as “not accurate.”
The report — “Lawmakers Vow To Investigate Trump After Bombshell Report” — written by BuzzFeed politics reporter Emma Loop — is a roundup of reactions from top Democrats to the news organization’s report, citing two unidentified law enforcement officials alleging the president asked Cohen to lie to lawmakers about a proposal to build a Trump tower in the Russian capital of Moscow.
BuzzFeed claimed Cohen told Mueller that President Trump personally instructed him to lie about the timing of the project in order to obscure Trump’s involvement. No other news organization was able to confirm the report nearly 24 hours after its publication.
Further, BuzzFeed said Mueller’s investigators learned about President Trump’s directive “through interviews with multiple witnesses from the Trump Organization and internal company emails, text messages, and a cache of other documents.”
The report says Cohen then acknowledged Trump’s instructions when he was interviewed by the Mueller team. “We are continuing to report and determine what the special counsel is disputing. We remain confident in the accuracy of our report,” Ben Smith, BuzzFeed’s editor-in-chief, said in a statement on the special counsel’s dispute of its reportage.
The screenshot below shows BuzzFeed leading with Loop’s report at 9:38 p.m. EST. The subsequent screenshot shows the report was last updated at 12:10 p.m. EST — hours after the special counsel’s dispute of the report’s underlying claims.
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/01/18/buzzfeed-leads-with-fake-news-collusion-story-hours-after-refuted-by-mueller/
CNN And MSNBC Repeatedly Floated Impeachment Over Disputed BuzzFeed Report
CNN and MSNBC collectively used the word “impeach” nearly 200 times on Friday before the Special Counsel’s office disputed a bombshell report by BuzzFeed News.
According to a Daily Caller review of TV clipping service Grabien, personalities on CNN and MSNBC used the words “Impeach,” “Impeachment,” or “Impeachable,” 179 times.
The review included only original Friday programming and ran up until each network learned that BuzzFeed’s report was in dispute — shortly before 8 pm.
CNN mentioned impeachment 82 times while MSNBC mentioned it a whopping 97 times.
While some anchors and pundits hedged that the BuzzFeed story could only lead to impeachment proceedings “if true,” others repeated the story more uncritically and suggested that the president would be forced to resign and might even face obstruction of justice charges.
MSNBC’s Katy Tur, for example, stated at the top of her show that “Donald Trump is facing the most damming report to date for his presidency. A story that could lead to his impeachment.”
Both outlets also interviewed a number of Democratic congresspeople to get their thoughts on the possibility of impeachment of the president. CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, for example, spoke to Democratic Rep. Jim Himes about the implications of the BuzzFeed report if it turned out to be verified, while MSNBC host Chris Matthews brought on Democratic Rep. Ted Lieu.
Matthews was perhaps the most eager cable television host to prop up BuzzFeed’s report, even insisting after the Special Counsel’s office’s statement that, “not accurate … it doesn’t mean it’s not true.”
BuzzFeed’s story, dependent on two anonymous sources, alleged that former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen was directed by President Donald Trump to lie about business deals in Moscow during the 2016 presidential campaign.
A spokesperson for Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team disputed the crux of the report within 24 hours of its publication, stating, “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.”
https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/18/cnn-msnbc-impeach-trump-buzzfeed-mueller/
YouTube Takes Down Video Showing Planned Parenthood Helping Sex Trafficker
When Live Action republished 2011 footage of a Planned Parenthood official assisting a person pretending to be a sex trafficker, YouTube took the video down.
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https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/18/march-for-life-planned-parenthood-youtube/
At Least 20 Dead, Multiple Hurt as Ruptured Pipeline Explodes in Central Mexico
Mexican Broadcaster has shown dramatic footage of the burning pipeline in the municipality of Tlahuelilpan near a refinery to the north of Mexico City.
According to local media reports, a ruptured pipeline exploded on Friday, killing at least 20 and injuring dozens of people who were trying to fill containers with fuel near the broken pipeline. The incident reportedly occurred hours after thieves drilled an illegal tap into the steel tube.
"The preliminary report I've been passed is very serious, they're telling me 20 people have died, charred, and that 54 are injured, burned", the governor of Hidalgo state, Omar Fayad told Mexican television on Friday as quoted by Reuters.
Later in the day, Omar Fayad said in a twitter post that at least 60 people were seriously hurt after the pipeline exploded.
https://sputniknews.com/latam/201901191071623926-mexico-pipeline-explosion-damage/