{"id":76984,"date":"2017-07-05T07:53:30","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T11:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=76984"},"modified":"2017-07-05T07:53:30","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T11:53:30","slug":"cnn-violating-constitution-over-trump-meme-expose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=76984","title":{"rendered":"CNN \u2018violating constitution\u2019 over Trump meme expos\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><div id=\"attachment_76985\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/595ca409fc7e93d0778b4567.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-76985\" class=\"wp-image-76985\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/595ca409fc7e93d0778b4567.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/595ca409fc7e93d0778b4567.jpg 900w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/595ca409fc7e93d0778b4567-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/595ca409fc7e93d0778b4567-768x427.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-76985\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Jaap Arriens \/ Global Look Press<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<h2>#CNNBlackmail: Network blasted for \u2018threatening\u2019 Trump meme creator<\/h2>\n<p>RT.com<\/p>\n<p>CNN is being accused of blackmail and coercion after it seemingly threatened to expose the creator of the CNN meme recently shared by US President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>When Trump shared a meme of him wrestling a man with CNN\u2019s logo for a head, the news organization accused the president of encouraging<em>\u00a0\u201cviolence against reporters.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Now, CNN has been accused of both threatening and blackmailing the creator of the wrestling meme.<\/p>\n<p>CNN\u2019s KFile\u2019 discovered the real identity of the Reddit user credited with creating the meme, HanA**holeSolo, and tried to contact him. The meme creator then apologized on Reddit, saying he doesn\u2019t advocate violence against the media. According to CNN, he then got in touch with KFile and asked not to be named.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/twitter.com\/MarkDice\/status\/882448004606767104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&#038;ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rt.com%2Fviral%2F395327-cnn-blackmail-meme-trump%2F<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">When CNN logo is figure&#8217;s head we know it&#8217;s the bad guy, or boogeyman. <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/idRh8eJQxV\">pic.twitter.com\/idRh8eJQxV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 STACEY ??? (@Crane_Maiden) <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Crane_Maiden\/status\/882460090170839041\">July 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The article continues<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/viral\/395327-cnn-blackmail-meme-trump\/\">\u00a0HERE\u00a0<\/a>with much moreTweet viewing.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/viral\/395327-cnn-blackmail-meme-trump\/\">http:\/\/www.rt.com\/viral\/395327-cnn-blackmail-meme-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__text text js-mediator-article\"><\/div>\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-76984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76984","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=76984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}