Former Attorney General Mukasey Shreds CNN for ‘Misleading People’ with Russia Conspiracy Theories

• Former Attorney General Mukasey Shreds CNN for ‘Misleading People’ with Russia Conspiracy Theories
  by https://www.rt.com/
  Retired US Attorney General Michael Mukasey slammed CNN on its own network for what he said was flawed coverage of the special counsel investigation into US President Donald Trump.
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  Appearing for a one-on-one interview on Cuomo Prime Time on Tuesday, Mukasey said CNN was “misleading a lot of people” in its coverage of the investigation, which sought to determine whether then-candidate Trump conspired with Moscow to win the 2016 presidential election.
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  “You have a big audience – getting smaller by the minute now,” he said to host Chris Cuomo, who laughed nervously.Mukasey served as attorney general from 2007 to 2009 under the George W. Bush administration.
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  While the special counsel’s final report did not find evidence of a criminal conspiracy with Russia, the report was for weeks the subject of intense speculation in the media. Mukasey was not impressed with CNN’s performance in the lead-up to the report’s publication, as the network insisted on the collusion narrative.
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  “Your network was devoting days of people sitting around and talking about a report whose contents they didn’t know – that they hadn’t seen,” Mukasey said. “In essence, panels of people sitting around a table inhaling their own exhaust, and getting high on it.”
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  He added that CNN helped to whip the country into “a state of absolute hysteria” over the investigation. “Consider this,” he said, “[Trump is] being investigated for a crime that didn’t happen, and that he certainly didn’t commit.”
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