Julian Assange calls out CBS lies!
Offers network execs $100K if they can prove their claim.
ECUADOREAN EMBASSY, England (PNN) - December 9, 2017 - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has challenged the owners of CBS to a $100,000 bet that the network’s story about the whistleblowing website’s alleged links to the Trump family is false.
Assange lambasted the network on Twitter, calling it a “pathetic excuse for a media organization” after it published a story claiming WikiLeaks offered Donald Trump, Jr. early access to leaked documents in September 2016.
Assange called the story “fake news” and bet the majority owners of CBS, the Redstone family, $100,000 that the claim is false.
Broadcasters CBS and CNN ran the story claiming Trump Jr. and other members of the Trump campaign, including Donald Trump himself, were sent an email containing a website URL and decryption key in September 2016, which would allow them to view unpublished WikiLeaks material.
Both news organizations first published stories claiming the emails were sent on September 4 - nine days before the emails were actually published on September 13 - but later corrected the date to September 14 after the Washington Post debunked the story.
CBS cited a source whom it said received the email, while CNN claimed it was given the scoop from congressional investigators. CNN later published a correction, in lieu of a full retraction, to say the email sent to the Trump campaign “indicates that the writer may have simply been flagging information that was already widely available.”
President Donald Trump launched his own attack against CNN via Twitter Saturday, calling for those responsible for the fake news gaff to be fired, and making fun of the channel’s signature slogan “the most trusted name in news”, which he says is a possible “fraud” against the Amerikan public.
