Former Dem Congressional Candidate Runs Scared After ‘Accidentally’ Defaming Trump on CNN
“I would love it if he was more transparent about the human sex trafficking network that he was a part of, but you can’t win them all”
Cameron Kasky of the gun control group March for Our Lives appeared on CNN this week and smeared President Trump as being part of a sex trafficking network. He is now claiming he made the comments accidentally, even though he doubled down and repeated them when questioned.
One of the most amazing parts of the story is that it took panelist Scott Jennings, not the program’s moderator/host, John Berman, to step in and correct the record. And even then, Berman flippantly scolded Jennings, saying that he would do the fact-checking on the show. A thing he had just utterly failed to do.
FOX News reports:
CNN guest apologizes after falsely claiming Trump was part of ‘human sex trafficking network’
Gun control activist Cameron Kasky issued an apology, albeit a seemingly sarcastic one, Tuesday for falsely claiming live on CNN that President Donald Trump was part of a “human sex trafficking network,” insisting he said it “by accident and didn’t mean it.”
Kasky appeared on “CNN NewsNight” Monday during a panel discussion about Trump’s reported interest in Greenland and whether it was tied to the Nobel Peace Prize. During a conversation about how Trump has been transparent about the Nobel Prize, Kasky made a false claim that nearly went unchecked.
“I would love it if he was more transparent about the human sex trafficking network that he was a part of, but you can’t win them all,” Kasky said on CNN.
CNN host John Berman, filling in for Abby Phillip, didn’t immediately correct the record, prompting conservative panelist Scott Jennings to say, “You gonna let that sit? Are we going to claim here on CNN that the president is part of a global sex trafficking ring?”
Berman responded, “We’re going to talk about the Epstein files. Scott, I will do the fact-checking as we go along here.”
Berman then asked Kasky, who survived the Parkland school shooting in 2018 and led the March for Our Lives movement, to repeat his claim about sex trafficking.
“That Donald Trump was provably very involved with it,” Kasky said.
“OK, we’ll get to that later. Donald Trump has never been charged with any crimes in relation to Jeffrey Epstein,” Berman said.
Watch the clip below:
Someone got the call… I’m not sure if that smug retraction is gonna hold up in court, kid, but you just might find out 🤷♂️ pic.twitter.com/EQDOPHFllV
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) January 21, 2026
It really does look like he got a call from a lawyer. Here’s his apology:
I would like to retract my comments from CNN last night and truly apologize.
Donald Trump was obviously not involved with a giant international child sex trafficking ring where women and children were systematically raped by elites.
I said that by accident and didn’t mean it.
— Cameron Kasky (@camkasky) January 20, 2026
John Nolte of Breitbart News commented on this:
It’s crazy, and more proof that any clown willing to trash Trump is allowed on CNN. CNN’s vetting process for Trump haters is so broken, they allow some dummy who opens himself and CNN up to a defamation suit, and then the dummy thinks he can get away with claiming he said something “by accident” and “didn’t mean” when he said it TWICE.
What’s more, CNN is so broken, so corrupt, so dishonest, so dedicated to disinformation, a so-called anchor had to be shamed into “fact-checking” a deliberate lie and smear aimed at the President of the United States.
Trump should sue Kasky and CNN for this. Make it painful.
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Sue, Sue, Sue! Discovery probably would show this is not the first time Cameron went down this path. Should be an easy settlement by CNN, as they cannot afford the discovery.
That’s the only way they are going to learn, and even then it’s a toss up.
CNN wouldn’t be liable. Kasky’s the one that said it, and CNN didn’t endorse it.
And Kasky would not be liable either, because he could simply say he thought it was true. He’d heard it somewhere, or read it somewhere, or it just seemed like the sort of thing that might be true. That’s enough to defeat “actual malice”.
Milhouse,
I enjoy reading what you present. In this case, let the facts be damned. Let both CNN and Kasky enjoy the process – long and hard. Whether they win or lose… let them stew in it.
Nope. Kasky is on that show being paid by CNN so is acting as their employee. They are both liable.
Why settle? There’s obligation to do that. And it’s not as if Trump needs the money. Putting the last nails in CNN’s coffin is the point, not to get money for its own sake.
I’d immediately file a lawsuit for defamation and slander against that little-s**t and CNN. This has to be good for at least a several million dollars. So I hope that little-s**t can prove his claim otherwise it’s gonna cost him and CNN a fortune,.
“Several million”
NO WAY! Sue for 10 BILLION and settle for 3 billion.
Make it HURT! Then, maybe next time, they’ll do vetting of their guests a little more carefully, along with who they allow to be guest ‘moderators’.
There’s no way Trump could prove actual malice. All Kasky would have to say is that he assumed it was true. Trump would have to prove he knew for a fact it wasn’t true, or at least was so reckless that he didn’t care whether it was true. That would be almost impossible to prove, since polls show that so many people do believe this BS. How do you prove he wasn’t just one of those millions of idiots?
In any case CNN wouldn’t be liable. They just let him say it; they didn’t endorse it.
“ All Kasky would have to say is that he assumed it was true.”
Uh, no. Kasky is quoted as explicitly saying that “provably true.” That’s the precise opposite of assuming it. So that defense fails.
Milberg, you douche bag, ever hear of reckless disregard? Your head is so far up your ass you say the stupidest things.
Berman: “Scott, I will do the fact-checking as we go along here” immediately following an excuse for why he hadn’t it done it yet, i.e., “we’re going to talk about the Epstein files.”
The dismissive arrogance of holier-than-thou sh*tlibs like Berman when caught red-handed is their most annoying feature.
“Feel free to start whenever.”
Accidentally? Bruh, you did it once then when given an opportunity to clarify, revise or retract your statement of fact you decided to double down and do it again. This is like claiming you shot someone ‘by accident’ but then delivered a deliberately aimed second round into them.
And the final tweet “apology” was transparently a passive-aggressive third libel.
I suspect that Kasky believes what he said is true. He and his leftists buddies have talked about it!
He’s convinced that passing laws banning guns is going to make anybody safer. So he’s clearly a nitwit from the word go.
This is true, and would bolster his defense.
Why do you assume that? These guys say whatever comes into their heads. They don’t stop to wonder whether it’s accurate. Most of the time, they don’t know the meaning of what they’re calling people. Get one to define fascist. Good luck with that. But they toss that out if they don’t like you.
These come off like twins in a gradeschool school yard at recess.
Taunts, not twins….
Attention Media…If you want to increase revenue you should drop the lying.
Sue them both! That ignorant no nothings only claim to fame is that he didn’t get shot, Mistake by the gun men. He not only said it twice but he began to say it for a third time when he was interrupted. No mistake. It was deliberate.
That’s a ridiculous statement
The apology is what happens when you fight back. They know Trump means business and is not taking this stuff any longer.
This is reason 98851232 why I love Trump. He takes the fight to them. He wins.
…and it is obvious that they wouldn’t expect pushback.
He saw his classmate Hogg hog all the attention and wanted a piece of the action.
It’s got to be a mind changing event, to survive a huge school shooting.
I don’t blame these kids that survived and have come out anti gun.
He “survived” it by being in the same building at the time. It’s like saying that anyone who was within earshot of a shooting “survived” it.
And I do blame anyone whose reaction to being near a crime scene is to want to prevent anyone in the same situation from defending themselves.
It wouldn’t be the trauma, it would be the crap fed into their heads by globalist leftists after the incident brainwashing them. The trauma just made them more susceptible to anti-gun lies.
lefty is going to be lefty
lie after lies after lies
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It could have been an accident when talking about Epstein’s entire network by meaning Trump knew him and therefore was part of his life. But to then use the word “Provably” as to Trump’s involvement could not be an accident by any measure. I believe that one word will doom him and CNN for not correcting him immediately.
No, it won’t even doom him, let alone CNN. All he has to say is that he thought it had been proven. He heard that it had been proven. After all that’s the message the Democrat Party (of which he’s a part) has been actively pushing for a long time. So he can easily say he believed it, and was surprised to find out, after the show, that it wasn’t true.
I hope PDT sues the little twit and CNN for at least five billion dollars!!
If anyone is involved with human trafficking it was Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and Alejandro Mayorkas. Their policies resulted in the funneling of billions of dollars to the Mexican cartels who controlled exactly who was allowed to cross the border. Some people paid in cash and some with favors. I would not be surprised if there were “tokens of appreciation” given to these individuals. No one seems to hold them accountable for aiding and abetting human and sex trafficking.
Nothing accidental about it and Trump should sue The Living Daylights out of them.
transcript of conversation between CNN’s lawyer and Trump’s lawyer.
Trump lawyer: Hello
CNN lawyer: How many zeros do you want on the check?
Yet again, Milhouse appears to be correct.
The law is an ass (Mr. Bumble, Oliver Twist) but it is The Law.
Many commentators ‘wish’ the law was different.
MILHOUSE – THANK YOU for being a voice of reason.
I do not like the bottom line, but I accept it.
IMHO, make punishment the process. Sue, make them run up legal bills/discovery/depositions if possible – but a judge might dismiss the case early as frivolous = minimal pain? As long as you are not liable for their legal costs, then make it hurt. Dems will pay and pay, probably forever?!?
Also, the Dems are hamstringing reform in The Courts. If/when they return (especially if the midterms auger in for Rs), then why not play their game? Stop everything they try to undo. After all, they set the precedent.
//OLDSCHOOL SENDS//
This is why so many states have SLAPP statutes, specifically to prevent this. If Trump sues in one of those states he is very likely to have to pay Kasky.
I watched the clip in question. There was no “accident”. He said what he meant to say, twice and unlike when you say something by accident didn’t correct himself. The Dem party appears full of these smarmy little beta cucks. I guess that’s their version of males so it will be nice to watch them die off as beta cucks and blue haired screeching AWFL’s seem to be all the party has going for it.