***To read the full blog, please check out the complete post on NewsBusters***
CNN’s already shaky credibility took a pretty big hit last week after Michael Cohen’s attorney, Lanny Davis came out and admitted he was the key source behind their erroneous reporting that suggested President Trump knew about the Trump Tower meeting in advance. Despite host Brian Stelter being on vacation, nothing was different during Sunday’s Reliable Sources with John Avlon at the helm as he and the panel tried to downplay the controversy as something that “happens all the time”.
Avlon began by quipped about how one of the authors of the increasingly dubious report, Carl Bernstein found himself named in a Presidential tweet criticizing CNN. And despite how the claims of the report had been proven false so far, Avlon mocked Trump’s “strenuous denials” of them.
After emphasizing that Davis was only one of CNN’s sources for the questionable report, Avlon wondered “why would Lanny Davis backtrack? It could be to save his client from a perjury trap given previous statements made to Congress.” And instead of attesting to the credibility of the other sources supposedly involved in the crumbling report, Avlon cited the on-air ramblings of MSNBC’s Donny Deutsch for some reason:
(...)