By Robert Laurie ——Bio and Archives--July 6, 2017
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#FraudNewsCNN #FNN pic.twitter.com/WYUnHjjUjg
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 2, 2017
EXCLUSIVE: CNN tracked down the Reddit user behind the Trump wrestling GIF. Now he’s apologizing. https://t.co/elrluxS5dm
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) July 5, 2017
"The meme was created purely as satire, it was not meant to be a call to violence against CNN or any other news affiliation," he wrote. "I had no idea anyone would take it and put sound to it and then have it put up on the President's Twitter feed. It was a prank, nothing more. What the President's feed showed was not the original post that was posted here, but loaded up somewhere else and sound added to it then sent out on Twitter. I thought it was the original post that was made and that is why I took credit for it. I have the highest respect for the journalist community and they put their lives on the line every day with the jobs that they do in reporting the news."Once again, all CNN had to do was stop there. They could have asked why the President was reposting an internet troll's memes on his Twitter feed. They could have pondered why the President was spending time digging through Reddit for jokes written by his possibly anti-Semitic fans, and they could have placed legitimate pressure on the administration to answer. Again, they didn't do that. What they did do was threaten the meme-creator:
CNN is not publishing “HanA**holeSolo’s” name because he is a private citizen who has issued an extensive statement of apology, showed remorse by saying he has taken down all his offending posts, and because he said he is not going to repeat this ugly behavior on social media again. In addition, he said his statement could serve as an example to others not to do the same.
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— PlayTheTrumpCard (@PlaysTrumpCard) July 5, 2017
ACME stock sets another high as @CNN continues daily product purchases despite the 100% fail rate of each plan#CNNBlackmail pic.twitter.com/BDvv1tZEQ0
CNN's threatening to blackmail creators of gifs. If Trump wasn't enough, now they're at war with the entire internet pic.twitter.com/JvZpzTM6Aw
— Democrats for Trump (@YoungDems4Trump) July 5, 2017
Even Congressman Scott Taylor (R-VA) decided to metion that CNN had sailed past "the line."#CNNBlackmail hey dox me. I'm not a child. pic.twitter.com/4U727Pc2zD
— the_one (@JeremyMccr) July 5, 2017
@CNN U basically coerce apology & threaten release of identity if something changes? Pretty sure a line is crossed here. #CNNBlackmail https://t.co/k4W9AepP6W
— Scott Taylor (@Scotttaylorva) July 5, 2017
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