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CNN retracts and deletes story purporting links between Russian investment fund and Trump

Posted by Olog-hai on Sat Jun 24 11:34:31 2017

Philadelphia Inquirer

CNN deletes, retracts story linking Trump and Russia

By Rob Tornoe, Staff Writer
June 24, 2017 — 8:43 AM EDT
On Thursday evening, CNN investigative reporter Thomas Frank published a potentially explosive report involving an investigation of a Russian investment fund with potential ties to several associates of President Donald Trump.

But by Friday night, the story was removed from CNN’s website and all links were scrubbed from the network’s social media accounts.

“That story did not meet CNN’s editorial standards and has been retracted,” CNN said in an editors note posted in place of the story. “Links to the story have been disabled.”

Neither Frank or CNN immediately responded to requests for comment, and a spokesperson for the Senate Intelligence Committee wasn’t available to comment.

Frank, a Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist, had reported that the Senate Intelligence Committee was investigating a “$10-billion Russian investment fund whose chief executive met with a member of President Donald Trump’s transition team four days before Trump’s inauguration.”

In addition to retracting its story, CNN also apologized to Anthony Scaramucci, an adviser to Trump during the presidential campaign and a member of his transition team’s executive committee, who was mentioned in the story as having met Kirill Dmitriev, the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) that the network said is overseen by Vnesheconombank, a state-run bank that is currently under U.S. sanctions.

According to the report, the meeting between Scarmucci and Dmitriev could have included the issue of sanctions being lifted, but a spokesperson for the RDIF told Sputnik News, a state-run Russian news channel, that the fund is not a part of Vnesheconombank.

“RDIF always operates in full compliance with relevant regulations and legislation and its operations do not violate sanctions,” the spokesperson said.

Multiple news outlets have reported on the meeting, which took place at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland just four days before Trump’s inauguration. As Bloomberg noted, it was “the first public contact between the incoming administration and Kremlin-backed business.”

Scaramucci weighed in on Twitter Saturday morning about the network’s decision to pull the story, calling it a “classy move.”

CNN’s retraction comes about a month after Fox News was also forced to pull a potentially explosive political story involving the death of former Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich.

Rich was shot to death in Washington, D.C., on the morning of July 10, 2016. Local police said the crime was likely a botched robbery, but that hasn’t stopped figures like Sean Hannity and former Republican House speaker Newt Gingrich from suggesting Rich was murdered for leaking DNC emails to Wikileaks.

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Re: CNN retracts and deletes story purporting links between Russian investment fund and Trump

Posted by Olog-hai on Sun Jun 25 11:58:06 2017, in response to CNN retracts and deletes story purporting links between Russian investment fund and Trump, posted by Olog-hai on Sat Jun 24 11:34:31 2017.

Libs fear this story.

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Re: CNN retracts and deletes story purporting links between Russian investment fund and Trump

Posted by AlM on Sun Jun 25 12:31:44 2017, in response to Re: CNN retracts and deletes story purporting links between Russian investment fund and Trump, posted by Olog-hai on Sun Jun 25 11:58:06 2017.

No they don't. They want the truth about Trump. If he hasn't done anything impeachable he shouldn't be impeached.

Only some radicals want Trump impeached no matter what, even if doing so damages our country.

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Re: CNN retracts and deletes story purporting links between Russian investment fund and Trump

Posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Jun 25 13:41:25 2017, in response to Re: CNN retracts and deletes story purporting links between Russian investment fund and Trump, posted by AlM on Sun Jun 25 12:31:44 2017.

Trump's impeachment and removal from office will only help our country.

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Re: CNN retracts and deletes story purporting links between Russian investment fund and Trump

Posted by Joe V on Sun Jun 25 13:54:10 2017, in response to Re: CNN retracts and deletes story purporting links between Russian investment fund and Trump, posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Jun 25 13:41:25 2017.

Don't under-estimate the damage Pence could do. With a lack of Trump's bombastic style, he could do a lot more.

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Re: CNN retracts and deletes story purporting links between Russian investment fund and Trump

Posted by Olog-hai on Sun Jun 25 13:58:55 2017, in response to Re: CNN retracts and deletes story purporting links between Russian investment fund and Trump, posted by Olog-hai on Sun Jun 25 11:58:06 2017.

QED.

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Re: CNN retracts and deletes story purporting links between Russian investment fund and Trump

Posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Jun 25 14:01:29 2017, in response to Re: CNN retracts and deletes story purporting links between Russian investment fund and Trump, posted by Joe V on Sun Jun 25 13:54:10 2017.

I'm not underestimating the damage that Pence can do.

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Re: CNN retracts and deletes story purporting links between Russian investment fund and Trump

Posted by AlM on Sun Jun 25 14:07:26 2017, in response to Re: CNN retracts and deletes story purporting links between Russian investment fund and Trump, posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Jun 25 13:41:25 2017.

I disagree. An impeachment on less than rock solid grounds could harm the country more than it helps.

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Re: CNN retracts and deletes story purporting links between Russian investment fund and Trump

Posted by jimmymc25 on Mon Jun 26 00:22:39 2017, in response to Re: CNN retracts and deletes story purporting links between Russian investment fund and Trump, posted by Joe V on Sun Jun 25 13:54:10 2017.

Yeah, that's what sucks.


Jimmymc25

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Re: CNN retracts and deletes story purporting links between Russian investment fund and Trump

Posted by BILLBKLYN on Mon Jun 26 05:28:05 2017, in response to CNN retracts and deletes story purporting links between Russian investment fund and Trump, posted by Olog-hai on Sat Jun 24 11:34:31 2017.

Oy veh!!

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Re: CNN retracts and deletes story purporting links between Russian investment fund and Trump

Posted by LuchAAA on Mon Jun 26 05:51:51 2017, in response to CNN retracts and deletes story purporting links between Russian investment fund and Trump, posted by Olog-hai on Sat Jun 24 11:34:31 2017.

what does Fox News have to do with this? there is no reason for their mention in this story.

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Re: CNN retracts and deletes story purporting links between Russian investment fund and Trump

Posted by Olog-hai on Mon Jun 26 10:36:20 2017, in response to Re: CNN retracts and deletes story purporting links between Russian investment fund and Trump, posted by LuchAAA on Mon Jun 26 05:51:51 2017.

Of course there's no reason.

It's just a qualifier to show their peers "hey, we're still your same old liberal media so don't start painting us 'right wing' like, you know, Fox News".

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Re: CNN retracts and deletes story purporting links between Russian investment fund and Trump

Posted by Olog-hai on Mon Jun 26 10:37:43 2017, in response to Re: CNN retracts and deletes story purporting links between Russian investment fund and Trump, posted by BILLBKLYN on Mon Jun 26 05:28:05 2017.

They're feeling the backlash. Publishing fake news makes people angry.

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Re: CNN allows 3 journolist to move on

Posted by orange blossom special on Tue Jun 27 11:45:48 2017, in response to CNN retracts and deletes story purporting links between Russian investment fund and Trump, posted by Olog-hai on Sat Jun 24 11:34:31 2017.

And I am sure they're going to go on to other lucrative positions, since no one ever reads and tracks the authors of the fakenews.

Otherwise, i see a disturbing trend of journolist getting arrested for Jewophobic hatecrimes and joining IS lately.

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Re: CNN allows 3 journolist to move on

Posted by Olog-hai on Tue Jun 27 14:16:48 2017, in response to Re: CNN allows 3 journolist to move on, posted by orange blossom special on Tue Jun 27 11:45:48 2017.

Amazing what goes on off the liberal fakenews radar.

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Re: CNN allows 3 journolist to move on

Posted by jimmymc25 on Sat Jul 1 00:44:54 2017, in response to Re: CNN allows 3 journolist to move on, posted by Olog-hai on Tue Jun 27 14:16:48 2017.

LOL!!!

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