CNN decided to count how many times President Donald Trump has said “fake” over the past year, so we returned the favor and counted how many times they have said “Russia.”
CNN senior media correspondent Brian Stelter said that Trump “labeling real news as fake” is “poisonous.” In order to demonstrate his point, Stelter counted up every single time Trump said “fake.”
Trump’s repetition — labeling real news as fake — is what makes his rhetoric so poisonous. So I tallied up all the times he has said “fake” https://t.co/6pb6jnjGHF
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) January 18, 2018
This number–which is over 400, by the way–is practically meaningless because it doesn’t sort out when Trump was correct to say something was fake. And you have to imagine that Trump was correct fairly often given how badly the media failed last year. (RELATED: 7 Times CNN Botched The News In 2017)
But since CNN thinks it’s important that Trump has said “fake” over 400 times since his inauguration, we counted how many times CNN has tweeted about “Russia”–and it’s not pretty.
From January 20, 2017 to January 20, 2018, CNN tweeted about Russia a whopping 1,118 times. That’s an average of at least 3 Russia-related tweets a day.
Some of the tweets were even about CNN’s own fake news stories, such as the Donald Jr. and Wikileaks non-scandal. (RELATED:CNN Botches Major ‘Bombshell’ Alleging Contacts Between Don Jr. And WikiLeaks)
Exclusive: Donald Trump, Trump Jr. and others in the Trump Organization got an email in September 2016 offering a decryption key and link for hacked WikiLeaks documents https://t.co/hEJLhtiYKm pic.twitter.com/DCCMNhtzge
— CNN (@CNN) December 8, 2017
CNN better watch out this year–their tweeting habits are quickly becoming “poisonous.”