President-elect Trump hit back at CNN, telling one of the network’s correspondents that he disseminates “fake news.”
“You’re fake news,” Trump said to CNN correspondent Jim Acosta during a press conference Wednesday in New York.
Acosta had tried to shout out a question to Trump, who was railing against CNN for publishing a story Tuesday that Trump had been presented with a report by intelligence officials that claimed the Russian government has compromising information on him. Trump told Acosta that he would not call on him.
Trump tangles with CNN reporter over intelligence report."You are fake news." pic.twitter.com/vHm9eSjOva— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) January 11, 2017
The information included lewd sex acts that Trump had allegedly participated in during a trip to Russia, according to a dossier published by BuzzFeed. Trump has denied the allegations and other news outlets, including the New York Times and Washington Post, have said they knew of the report well in advance but were unable to substantiate it.
Trump said that the report should never have been published and that it was “not the worth the paper it’s been printed on.”
