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CNN's fake news fumble: Shaky anonymous sources backfire as Trump's Iran strike proves devastating



Following President Donald Trump's strike on Iran's nuclear enrichment facilities, CNN hastily seized an opportunity to criticize the administration by reporting a leaked early assessment, leaning on several anonymous sources who incorrectly claimed the attack caused minimal damage. Subsequent findings of widespread destruction revealed CNN's misstep and further highlighted legacy media's over-reliance on shaky insiders, desperate to downplay conservative wins.

On June 25, CNN published an "exclusive" article from correspondent Natasha Bertrand and two other network reporters questioning Trump's claims that the strike "completely and totally obliterated" Iran's sites, citing "seven people briefed" on a top-secret early Defense Intelligence Agency assessment.

'Why did you hire someone so patently averse to the facts, considering she claimed Hunter Biden's laptop is Russian disinformation?'

One source told CNN, "So the (DIA) assessment is that the U.S. set them back maybe a few months, tops."

Two unnamed individuals told the news outlet that the strike did not destroy Iran's enriched uranium stockpile, one claimed that the centrifuges were still "largely 'intact,'" and another alleged that the uranium was moved before the attack.

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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told CNN that the initial assessment was "flat-out wrong" and torched "an anonymous, low-level loser in the intelligence community" for leaking the top-secret report to the network.

Still, after later assessments confirmed the administration's claims that the facilities were significantly damaged, CNN clung to its initial narrative and defended its journalists.

"We stand 100% behind Natasha Bertrand's journalism and specifically her and her colleagues' reporting of the early intelligence assessment of the U.S. attack on Iran's nuclear facilities," CNN stated. "CNN's reporting made clear that this was an initial finding that could change with additional intelligence. We have extensively covered President Trump's own deep skepticism about it."

"However, we do not believe it is reasonable to criticize CNN reporters for accurately reporting the existence of the assessment and accurately characterizing its findings, which are in the public interest," CNN's statement added.

Conservative media critics slammed CNN's strike coverage, blasting the network and other legacy media outlets for their pattern of leaning on dubious, left-leaning sources who consistently miss the mark, as seen during the COVID-era alarmism, the suppression of Hunter Biden's laptop story, and the downplaying of former President Joe Biden's obvious cognitive decline.

'They should be prosecuted!'

Curtis Houck, managing editor of Media Research Center's NewsBusters, responded to CNN's statement.

"Why did you hire someone so patently averse to the facts, considering she claimed Hunter Biden's laptop is Russian disinformation?" Houck wrote, referring to Bertrand. "Or perhaps it's because you know she's a partisan who will take whatever the Deep State hands her and run with it?"

Chad Prather, host of "The Chad Prather Show," asked CNN, "How bout all the other things you've lied about?"

Conservative commentator Vince Dao wrote, "Firstly, you blatantly misrepresented what that report even said. Secondly, [you're] literally spreading Pentagon propaganda to justify a war. How does it feel to abandon everything the 'free press' stood for 20 years ago? Pathetic."

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As recently as Monday, CNN was still trying to push the narrative that the Trump administration's attack on Iran was largely unsuccessful.

The outlet published a report stating that Rafael Grossi, the United Nations' nuclear watchdog chief, claimed it would take Iran only "a matter of months" to restart enriching uranium.

The article reads, "Rafael Grossi's comments appear to support an early assessment from the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency, first reported on by CNN, which suggests the United States' strikes on key Iranian nuclear sites last week did not destroy the core components of its nuclear program, and likely only set it back by months."

The article cited Grossi's comments to CBS' "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," during which he explained that the strikes caused "severe" but "not total damage."

"They can have, you know, in a matter of months, I would say, a few cascades of centrifuges spinning and producing enriched uranium, or less than that. But as I said, frankly speaking, one cannot claim that everything has disappeared and there is nothing there," Grossi said.

On Friday, a CNN spokesperson told the New York Post that the outlet had received a letter from Alejandro Brito, Trump's attorney, accusing it of defamation and demanding a retraction. CNN defended its reporting.

Trump called for those who leaked the assessment to be prosecuted.

Last week, in a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote, "The Democrats are the ones who leaked the information on the PERFECT FLIGHT to the Nuclear Sites in Iran. They should be prosecuted!"

A CNN spokesperson confirmed to Blaze News that the outlet received a letter from Trump's lawyer, responded to it, and rejected the claims made.

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AMERICA AT WAR: Trump Announces U.S. Airstrikes On Iranian Nuclear Facilities

The United States has bombed three nuclear sites in Iran, President Donald Trump announced just before 8 p.m. Eastern time on Saturday in a social media post. The announcement came after U.S. airplanes completed the mission and were outside Iranian airspace. “A full payload of BOMBS was dropped on the primary site, Fordow. All planes […]

Trump announces 'successful attack' by the U.S. on three sites in Iran



On Saturday evening, after Blaze News' Rebeka Zeljko reported a press lid was called for the day at the White House, President Donald Trump announced via Truth Social that the United States had carried out a "successful attack on three nuclear sites in Iran." The president's post was shared by Secretary of State Marco Rubio via a post on X."

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Earlier in the day, there were multiple reports that B2 bombers had left their base in Missouri. The destination was not known. It was speculated to be Diego Garcia where the U.S. Air Force keeps bombers or Iran. With the president's post it appears that the destination was Iran.

Trump identified the nuclear sites hit as "Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan." He further declared that "all planes are now outised of Iran air space. A full payload of BOMBS was dropped on the primary site, Fordow."

This is a developing story and Blaze News will update throughout the night.

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Poll: Just 16 Percent Of Americans Want U.S. Involved In Israel-Iran War

A new poll released Tuesday reveals just 16 percent of Americans want to get involved in the Israel-Iran war. The poll, conducted earlier this week by The Economist and analytics group YouGov, found 16 percent of Americans think the “U.S. military should get involved in the conflict between Israel and Iran;” 60 percent say it […]

JD Vance pushes America First position on India-Pakistan conflict: 'None of our business'



The decades-long dispute between India and Pakistan over the Kashmir region has resulted in numerous bloody skirmishes and three full-fledged wars — in 1965, 1971, and 1999. In the wake of a horrific terrorist attack in the southern part of Indian-administered Kashmir last month, fighting has resumed and threatens now to embroil the two nuclear powers in another major war.

When pressed on Thursday to comment about the Trump administration's concern "about the potential for nuclear war between India and Pakistan," Vice President JD Vance told Fox News' Martha MacCallum that while concerned and keen on de-escalation, the U.S. is "not going to get involved in the middle of war that's fundamentally none of our business and has nothing to do with America's ability to control it."

"Look, we're concerned about any time nuclear powers collide and have a major conflict," said Vance. "What we've said, what Secretary Rubio has said, and certainly [what] the president has said is we want this thing to de-escalate as quickly as possible."

Tensions once again came to a head between India and Pakistan on April 22 when terrorists massacred 26 people, mainly Indian tourists, near Pahalgam, a town in the southern part of Indian-administered Kashmir.

'It's a shame.'

Indian officials believe that the group claiming responsibility for the massacre, the Resistance Front, is actually a proxy for the Pakistan-based jihadist terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Taiba, reported the New York Times.

President Donald Trump stated in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attack, "The United States stands strong with India against Terrorism. We pray for the souls of those lost, and for the recovery of the injured."

While India did not publicly blame the Pakistani government massacre, New Delhi nevertheless responded with missile strikes on alleged terrorist training sites in Pakistan while also reportedly arresting thousands of people in Kashmir.

Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif claimed that India's May 6 (local time) strikes amounted to a "heinous act of aggression [that] will not go unpunished."

President Donald Trump said Tuesday in response to the news of India's military operation against Pakistan, "It's a shame," adding, "I just hope it ends very quickly."

'What we can do is try to encourage these folks to de-escalate a little bit.'

Secretary of State Marco Rubio noted later on May 6 that he was monitoring the situation closely and echoed Trump's hope that "this hopefully ends quickly."

In recent days, India and Pakistan have reportedly traded artillery fire and drone strikes. Sharif claimed Wednesday that the Pakistani military had shot down five Indian jets.

"We can't control these countries," Vance, who was in India at the time of the terrorist attacks, told MacCallum. "India has its gripes with Pakistan. Pakistan has responded to India. What we can do is try to encourage these folks to de-escalate a little bit."

"Our hope and our expectation is that this is not going to spiral into a broader regional war or, God forbid, a nuclear conflict," continued the vice president. "We're worried about these things, but I think the job of diplomacy — but also the job of cooler heads in India and Pakistan — is to make sure this doesn't become a nuclear war."

According to the Federation of American Scientists, Pakistan and India have 170 and 180 nuclear warheads, respectively.

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Microsoft elites EXPOSE the entire playbook by re-opening Three Mile Island



The Three Mile Island power plant was the scene of the worst commercial nuclear accident in United States history. While zero people died, it’s been used ever since as the media’s poster child for why we can’t invest in nuclear energy.

That is until now.

Constellation Energy, which claims to be America’s largest producer of clean, carbon-free energy, has just announced that it has signed the largest ever power purchase agreement with Bill Gates’ Microsoft — which in light of this agreement will be reopening Three Mile Island for business.

“Wow,” Glenn Beck of “The Glenn Beck Program” comments. “Well, what about solar panels, Bill? What about wind power?”


Gates also invested $1 billion in a nuclear power plant that broke ground in Kemmerer, Wyoming, last June.

“Now two power plants. Both of them nuclear,” Glenn says, shocked. “Nothing to worry about here. Bill Gates is a responsible human being, and so is nuclear power. It’s clean, and it’s good for the environment, and it’s totally acceptable.”

However, what Glenn really wants to know is why this is necessary.

“Why do they need this power? Not because you’re having a hard time affording electricity. Not because you’re having a hard time affording heat for your house. Not because they want to get rid of natural gas and want all of our stoves and everything else to be run on electricity. Not because we are switching over to battery cars, or that’s what they hope,” Glenn says.

“Bill Gates wants power because he wants to be the king of the world with AI, [and] he needs nuclear power plants, so he gets to build them. It’s almost as if we’re not allowed to talk about that either,” he continues, adding, “We’re not allowed to even talk about one for us. No, no, no. We have to have nuclear power plants for our new god of AI.”

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