I've never heard of slate, and given those headlines, I probably never will.
As for the CNN bit, two weeks passed, and they were proven to be wrong. Okay? The press gets things wrong? They aren't omnipotent?
Wouldn't it fit your point better if they buried the wiretap story, instead of featuring an exclusive on it?
Also at least one of those is an editorial. Which is absolutely a fault in how news is presented and perceived, with editorial headlines being listed the same as breaking news.
Actually. They weren't proven wrong. Once again, I had to go through ignore to even find out what you were talking about.
The key difference is what we're actually stating. Donald Trump said the FBI were running surveillance on him at Trump Tower. The FBI later says that they were surveilling Manafort.
And the actual link that I had to look up
here, they had this line.
The Justice Department and the FBI have denied that Trump’s own “wires” were tapped.
While Manafort has a residence in Trump Tower, it’s unclear whether FBI surveillance of him took place there.
Manafort has a home as well in Alexandria, Virginia. FBI agents raided the Alexandria residence in July.
The FBI also eavesdropped on Carter Page, a campaign associate that then candidate Trump once identified as a national security adviser. Page’s ties to Russia, including an attempt by Russian spies to cultivate him, prompted the FBI to obtain a FISA court warrant in 2014.
What the actual news is, is that a deeply Trump controlled Justice Department did a deep search and in 2019 found no evidence of any wiretapping on Trump Tower, which Donald originally claimed.
Justice Department inspector general Michael Horowitz said Wednesday that his team did not find any evidence that Trump Tower was under government surveillance, after conducting an exhaustive review of FBI surveillance during the Russia investigation.
www.cnn.com
Horowitz debunked a conspiracy theory that President Donald Trump invented weeks after taking office in 2017. Horowitz made the comment at a Senate Homeland Security hearing about his report into the early stages of the Russia investigation.
“Did the report find that the FBI engaged in surveillance of Trump Tower?” Sen. Tom Carper, a Delaware Democrat, asked Horowitz.
Horowitz replied, “We did not find evidence of surveillance on Trump Tower.”
Trump levied the bombshell accusation in 2017 against former President Barack Obama, claiming that Obama personally ordered his phones to be wiretapped before the 2016 election, and has repeated versions of it since.
“Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!” Trump tweeted, only six weeks after taking office, later adding, “President Obama was tapping my phones in October, just prior to Election!”
No information has emerged to corroborate the claim that Trump’s calls were wiretapped or that Obama was involved. Some top Republicans dismissed the allegations, and the Justice Department said in court filings in September 2017 that it doesn’t have any evidence to back up what Trump said.
The Russia investigation did include wiretaps against a former Trump campaign adviser, Carter Page, and the Horowitz review found serious problems with how those warrants were obtained. FBI informants also met with Page and two other Trump campaign aides, to ask them questions about their ties to Russia.
Horowitz said “all of the monitoring activities were approved” by the appropriate FBI leaders.
But the Justice Department watchdog report debunked several other Trump-backed conspiracy theories, in addition to the wiretap claims. The report highlighted how Trump relied on lies and falsehoods to attack the Russia probe that undermined the first two years of his presidency.
So we don't even have proof CNN has lied. We have CNN telling the facts they had over Manafort, and the facts they and the entire world has received from the Justice Department, a justice department controlled by Trump's own administration.
How did this occur? Well, Jeff Sessions said he didn't give Trump any
claim to believe there was wiretapping. Oddly enough, Jeff Sessions didn't last long. In comes William Barr. Barr was like "Nah, dude.
There was totes tapping, ya heard?" And
this article is the summation of Barr's digging on the behest of Trump.
The department that Trump's biggest cheerleader personally ran couldn't find a shred of evidence of Wiretapping. And yet, literally a year plus after this was proven, we still have the people who are "impartial" and "just bringing up facts" bringing up falsehoods that were disproven a long time ago. Or worst yet, slapping things together to look like they go together when they simply do not.