BuzzFeed got nuked by Mueller’s office on Friday night after the liberal media platform floated a fake news Trump-Cohen-Moscow report late Thursday night.
BuzzFeed dropped some late night ‘Trump-Russia’ fake news on Thursday after the media and Democrats’ rough day dealing with ‘Air Pelosi.’
The latest fake news story from BuzzFeed had the Democrats and their stenographers in the mainstream media riled up and calling for Trump’s head.
BuzzFeed reported late Thursday night that according to law enforcement sources, Trump directed his former lawyer Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about the proposed Trump Tower in Moscow.
BuzzFeed originally reported that Michael Cohen told Mueller’s team that President Trump personally instructed him to lie to Congress:
On Friday evening, a spokesperson for the special counsel disputed BuzzFeed’s junk report, calling it “inaccurate.”
“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,” the statement from Mueller’s spokesperson read.
On Friday night Buzzfeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith stood by the junk report.
JUST IN: BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith calls into @MSNBC to discuss the special counsel's new statement, and BuzzFeed News' response to that statement, with @chrislhayes. pic.twitter.com/oYcf3Q3MQ4
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) January 19, 2019
This was after Ben Smith attacked Trump supporters earlier in the day for questioning the sloppy reporting.
.@BuzzFeedBen on Trump supporters' attacks on BuzzFeed News and its reporters: "That is the last and weakest resort when you don't have anything else to say." pic.twitter.com/yjxgqhZPlH
— AM2DM by BuzzFeed News (@AM2DM) January 18, 2019
