{"id":62949,"date":"2017-01-11T15:41:54","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T19:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=62949"},"modified":"2017-01-11T15:41:54","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T19:41:54","slug":"trump-slams-buzzfeed-as-failing-pile-of-garbage-tells-cnn-you-are-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=62949","title":{"rendered":"Trump Slams BuzzFeed As &#8220;Failing Pile Of Garbage&#8221;, Tells CNN &#8220;You Are Fake News&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>In an epic (mutual) trolling between president-elect Trump on one hand and BuzzFeed and CNN, on the other, the two media organizations which issued yesterday&#8217;s unsubstantiated report about Russia having compromising information on the president-elect, Trump first addressed the question of why he referred to Nazi Germany, saying it is &#8220;disgraceful&#8221; that intelligence communities would allow the release of any information. &#8220;That&#8217;s something Nazi Germany would have done and did do,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p>He then unleashed on Buzzfeed which alone published the 35-page memo behind the Russian allegations, saying &#8220;<strong>Buzzfeed which is a failing pile of garbage&#8230; will suffer the consequences<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And then, in an even more stunning episode, Trump slammed CNN reporter Jim Acosta, who he also called out during the presser over their report on a two-page synopsis they claim was presented to Trump.<\/p>\n<p>With Trump looking to call on other reporters, Jim Acosta yelled out, \u201cSince you are attacking us, can you give us a question?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot you,\u201d Trump said. \u201c<strong>Your organization is terrible!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Acosta pressed on, \u201cYou are attacking our news organization, can you give us a chance to ask a question, sir?\u201d Trump countered by telling him \u201cdon\u2019t be rude.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong> \u201cI\u2019m not going to give you a question,\u201d Trump responded. \u201cDon&#8217;t be rude. I\u2019m not going to give you a question. You are fake news!\u201d<\/strong> Trump responded, before calling on a reporter from Breitbart.<\/p>\n<div class=\"max-width-video-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"fitvid119751\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jZmqhe_8jA0\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A snubbed Jim Acosta then tweeted the following: &#8220;Fortunately ABC&#8217;s Cecilia Vega asked my question about whether any Trump associates contacted Russians. Trump said no.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fortunately ABC&#39;s Cecilia Vega asked my question about whether any Trump associates contacted Russians. Trump said no.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jim Acosta (@Acosta) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acosta\/status\/819233642790715398?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 11, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Trump also had some &#8220;<em>kind words<\/em>&#8221; for the BBC:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user5\/imageroot\/2017\/01\/01\/bbc_0.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>These exchanges followed an initial statement by Trump spokesman Sean Spicer who said that &#8220;for all the talk lately about &#8216;fake news,&#8217; this political witch hunt by some in the media&#8230;is frankly shameful &amp; disgraceful&#8230;. Highly irresponsible for a left-wing blog&#8230; to drop highly salacious and flat out false information on the Internet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Following this, we expect the war between Trump and the media in general, or at least CNN in particular, to reach biblical proportions.<\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0 *\u00a0 *<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-01-11\/trump-slams-cnn-reporter-you-are-fake-news-calls-buzzfeed-failing-pile-garbage#comment-8781750\">http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-01-11\/trump-slams-cnn-reporter-you-are-fake-news-calls-buzzfeed-failing-pile-garbage#comment-8781750<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}