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:
It really does look like he got a call from a lawyer. Here’s his apology:
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.
Featured image via FOX News video.
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