WikiLeaks, Tuesday, exposed a massive lie President Barack Obama told to the American people following the first reports of Hillary Clinton’s private e-mail server. In March of 2015 Obama told CBS News’ Bill Plante that he learned about the server, “The same time everybody else learned it through news reports.” According to the newly leaked e-mails, that is not true because he had received e-mails from Clinton’s account. But ABC News didn’t think such a deception to the public warranted anytime at all, instead touting his appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
ABC’s Cecilia Vega started out her report on World News Tonight flaunting how confident Clinton was with just two weeks to go until the election. She then went on to hype Clinton’s endorsement from former Secretary of State Colin Powell, although the ABC reporter did mention Powell’s previous criticisms of her. From there she praised Obama for tearing into Donald Trump, “The president taking his own shots at Trump, playing along with Jimmy Kimmel's mean tweets.”
BARACK OBAMA: President Obama will go down as perhaps the worst president in the history of the United States, exclamation point, @realdonaldtrump. Well, @realdonaldtrump, at least I will go down as a president.
Even though NBC did mention the WikiLeaks e-mail exposing Obama’s knowledge of the server on NBC Nightly News, Clinton fangirl Andrea Mitchell downplayed it as just a “nagging problem” for Clinton.
With their other competitors paying it little mind, it was left up to CBS Evening News to do the grownup reporting since it was their reporter Obama had lied to. Reporter Nancy Cordes noted that, “Within minutes of the interview, Clinton's former chief of staff, Cheryl Mills told campaign aides, "We need to clean this up. He has e-mails from her. They do not say state.gov.””
Cordes also reported that Trump was using the revelation to slam both the president and Clinton. She said Trump was calling for an investigation of the president and played a clip of Trump saying, “This guy, he's as bad as she is, and he's got to stop campaigning and bring us some jobs, okay!”