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CNN gets way out of line by hunting down private pro-Trump citizen over Russian interference

By Becket Adams

Published February 21, 2018 9:03pm ET

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CNN gets way out of line by hunting down private pro-Trump citizen over Russian interference — It's really remarkable that CNN editors didn't consider that outing a private citizen as an unwitting dupe of Russian interference would put an enormous target on that private citizen's chest. (CNN)

Some reporters love the Russian interference story. They simply can’t get enough of it.

It’d be a lot more amusing were it not for the fact that this sort of obsessing often gets out of hand. It sure did this week when CNN sent reporter Drew Griffin to confront a private citizen who, they claim, unwittingly coordinated with Kremlin-connected trolls.

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