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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Justin Baragona

CNN anchors denounce Trump’s ‘manipulative’ claims that questions over Iran bombing are an attack on US military

CNN anchors Pamela Brown and Wolf Blitzer pushed back against Donald Trump’s “blatantly manipulative” narrative that the network’s reporting on the effectiveness of America’s bombing raid on Iranian nuclear facilities had demeaned and disparaged members of the military.

During a press conference at the NATO summit in the Netherlands on Wednesday, the president and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth assailed CNN and other legacy media outlets for reporting on an early US intelligence assessment that found the airstrikes had likely only set Iran’s nuclear program back a few months.

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