Mueller Report Exposes String Of Anonymously Sourced Stories That Got It Wrong

Peter Hassonby  Peter Hasson

  • The Mueller report revealed a number of bombshell stories based on anonymous sources were apparently wrong.
  • BuzzFeed and McClatchy each corrected two stories following the Mueller report’s release.
  • Mueller’s report had no evidence backing up a bombshell report in The Guardian that went viral but has since come into question.
  • A major CNN report on the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting was also inaccurate, Mueller’s report confirmed.

Special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian meddling revealed a string of anonymously-sourced stories about the investigation were inaccurate.

BuzzFeed and McClatchy each added editor’s notes to two stories following the publication of the Mueller report, which also contradicted an explosive CNN report and called into further question a bombshell story in The Guardian.

The Mueller report directly contradicted a Jan. 18 BuzzFeed story alleging that Mueller had evidence President Donald Trump ordered Michael Cohen, his former attorney, to lie to Congress about his exploration of a potential Trump Tower Moscow deal in 2016. (RELATED: Many Claimed Countless Times Over The Last 2 Years That Mueller Was ‘Closing In’ — Then He Filed His Report)

The story claimed that Cohen “told the special counsel that after the election, the president personally instructed him to lie — by claiming that negotiations ended months earlier than they actually did — in order to obscure Trump’s involvement.”

But Mueller’s report states: “Cohen said that he and the President did not explicitly discuss whether Cohen’s testimony about the Trump Tower Moscow project would be or was false, and the President did not direct him to provide false testimony. Cohen also said he did not tell the President about the specifics of his planned testimony.”

A June 2018 BuzzFeed story fingered former Russian Olympic weightlifter Dmitry Klokov as a potential go-between for Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Klokov was in contact with Donald Trump and Ivanka Trump, and offered to set up a meeting between Trump and Putin, the BuzzFeed report claimed, including photos of the weightlifter. Klokov at the time adamantly denied having been in contact with the Trump camp, and he was right.

Cohen had been in contact with a Russian he thought was Dmitry Klokov, the former Olympian, but he and BuzzFeed got it wrong. (RELATED: The Media’s Russia ‘Bombshells’ Look Even Worse Now That Mueller Found ‘No Collusion’)

Mueller’s report showed Cohen had confused the Russian weightlifter with a former Russian official by the same name.

Cohen was still under the impression that he had been talking with the weightlifter when he spoke with the special counsel’s office, according to the Mueller report.

 

full story at https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/19/mueller-report-anonymous-stories/

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