White House Threatens CNN Over Iran Coverage

Did CNN spread Iranian propaganda or is the Trump administration waging an unconstitutional war on the free press?

Published APR 8

White House Threatens CNN Over Iran Coverage

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Above: U.S. FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr at a conservative conference in Texas on March 27. Image credit: Shelby Tauber/Bloomberg/Getty Images

The Spin

CNN got caught running Iranian propaganda straight from a fake Nigerian news site, falsely calling it a legitimate headline about a "great victory" over the U.S., which is why CNN had to delete it. This is exactly the kind of reckless, anti-Trump reporting that keeps blowingbackfiring up in the media'scourt faceof public opinion. The U.S. decimated Iran in under 40 days, and Tehran is desperately spinning a loss as a win while CNN does the heavy lifting for them.

Red State Townhall

The Trump administration's response to unfavorable Iran coverage isn't accountability — it's a disturbing, coordinated pressure campaign to bully the press into silence. FCC Chair Brendan Carr's license threats are constitutionally hollow, and Trump's own CNN panelist couldn't even defend threatening to annihilate a civilization of 90 million people with a straight answer. Calling journalism "fraud" while waging an unconstitutional war on the free press is the real scandal here.

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