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From Daily Mail: President Donald Trump is now threatening to sue The New York Times and CNN over the outlets’ reporting on a preliminary intelligence report that assessed the U.S.’s strike on Iran did not completely destroy the country’s nuclear facilities.
The Times reported Thursday that Trump’s personal lawyer Alejandro Brito had reached out to the newspaper and said the article had damaged the president’s reputation.
The letter demanded The Times ‘retract and apologize for’ the story, calling it ‘false,’ ‘defamatory’ and ‘unpatriotic.’
“No retraction is needed,” The Times’ lawyer David McCraw said in a letter. “No apology will be forthcoming. We told the truth to the best of our ability. We will continue to do so.”
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt blasted CNN’s Natasha Bertran with some cold-hard facts about the attack on Iran, after the Trump-hating network pushed the preliminary report.
Will Karoline Leavitt laying out the facts make Natasha Bertran stop telling giant new lies?
Why does anyone believe anything coming out of CNN? They have been caught telling more lies than Satan himself! pic.twitter.com/0CDyTlXbZ0
— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) June 27, 2025
Trump has slammed the networks.
“Rumor is that the Failing New York Times and Fake News CNN will be firing the reporters who made up the FAKE stories on the Iran Nuclear sites because they got it so wrong,” Trump said. “Let’s see what happens?”
CNN exclusively reported leaked details from preliminary intelligence assessments of the strikes by the Defense Intelligence Agency, citing ‘seven people’ briefed on the report.
“Natasha Bertrand should be FIRED from CNN! I watched her for three days doing Fake News. She should be IMMEDIATELY reprimanded, and then thrown out ‘like a dog,’” Trump wrote on his social media outlet.
“She should not be allowed to work at Fake News CNN. It’s people like her who destroyed the reputation of a once great Network,” Trump continued. “Her slant was so obviously negative, besides, she doesn’t have what it takes to be an on camera correspondent, not even close. FIRE NATASHA!”
Natasha Bertrand should be FIRED from CNN! I watched her for three days doing Fake News. She should be IMMEDIATELY reprimanded, and then thrown out “like a dog.” She lied on the Laptop from Hell Story, and now she lied on the Nuclear Sites Story, attempting to destroy our Patriot…
— Trump Truth Social Posts On X (@TrumpTruthOnX) June 25, 2025
CNN made a statement denouncing Trump’s criticism of Bertrand.
“We stand 100 percent behind Natasha Bertrand’s journalism and specifically her and her colleagues’ reporting of the early intelligence assessment of the U.S. attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities,” the outlet said.
“We do not believe it is reasonable to criticize CNN reporters for accurately reporting on the existence of the assessment and accurately characterizing its findings, which are in the public interest,” CNN wrote.
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