‘Cannot Be Trusted’: CNN Promotes Conspiracies After Slamming Trump

Nicholas Fondacaro | July 15, 2018
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President Trump was set to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday, and the liberal media were in full campaign mode as they pushed speculation the President was a Russian agent meeting with his handler.

CNN’s Brian Stelter admitted as much during Sunday’s Reliable Sources, saying, “Trump opponents will speculate that he's really a Russian agent, having a meeting with his handler, betraying America.” While he did say that, Stelter also declared that no one could trust the President’s account of the meeting and gave those conspiracy theories room to grow.

Stelter kicked off the program by casting doubt over whether or not the President was trustworthy enough for us to believe his account of the one-on-one meeting Putin. “No aides, no note-takers. So, we'll never really know what is said because, really, can we trust either man? No. We can't,” he bitterly spat.

The CNN host bemoaned about how long-gone were the days of presidents who spoke only in truth and commanded power. “But not now. Not anymore,” he decried:

What President Trump says is so frequently false or nonsensical that his words don't have the same meaning, the same power, the same impact as past presidents. It's a shame but it's true. Trump simply cannot be trusted. He has proven this himself time and time again. It's his own lies and his own contradictions that have proven it.

Interestingly enough, if you swapped out the references to Trump and replaced them with references to the media, it still worked.

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