After Jason Leopold and Anthony Cormier dropped a questionably sourced article charging President Trump with directing his personal attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about the Trump Tower Moscow project, the news cycle centered on examining the credibility of the piece. If special counsel Robert Mueller’s response is indeed accurate, then the BuzzFeed piece was yet another sham, and at least one anonymous source burned Cormier and Leopold, who told different cable news networks different explanations for their sourcing. It could mark the death-knell of the two reporters’ careers and seriously call BuzzFeed News’ legitimacy into question.

CNN’s Senior Media Reporter Oliver Darcy published a piece following the scoop digging into Leopold’s “checkered past,” namely instances of unsatisfactory attribution and sourcing. Darcy praised the reporting pair’s track record on Trump/Russia scoops, but noted on Twitter, “the intense attention has also resurfaced Leopold’s checkered past.”