Update (2023ET): CNN journos doing damage control after the network's Natasha Bertrand panicked and deleted tweets containing harsh comments reportedly made by President Biden to Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky - namely that a Russian invasion was "imminent," that the Capital city of Kyiv could be "sacked," and to "prepare for impact."
Now - none of that apparently happened according to CNN's Jim Sciutto, the White House, and apparently Ukraine itself. Of note, CNN claims their source was a "senior Ukrainian official."
Human Events' Jack Posobiec lays it out:
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Hi @NatashaBertrand! Why did you delete this?
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We may have just caught a CNN reporter deleting a war report that exposed the truth about the White House and Ukraine
And it now looks like the White House pressured them to pull it
The American people deserve the truth.
Bertrand apparently didn't get the message to CNN's Jake Tapper and Senior International Correspondent Matthew Chance, who repeated the now-disputed report - which CNN just deleted.
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BREAKING: We have recovered the Ukraine call report that @JakeTapper and CNN just deleted
Please DO NOT RT this as they do not want anyone to see it!
https://twitter.com/i/status/1486883931098079233
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Timeline:
At 6:11pm, one hour after CNN's @NatashaBertrand deleted the war report, CNN's @JimSciutto a mouthpiece for the IC is dutifully posting attacks on the report she had posted at 4:59pm
What happened at CNN in the hour and 12 minutes in between?
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We also see a tweet from Emily Horne, a Biden official, which is a brief denial, but does not include the the specific details of Sciuttio's tweet
That means the White House was working the phones to CNN
Emily Horne @emilyhorne46
This is not true. President Biden said that there is a distinct possibility that the Russians could invade Ukraine in February. He has previously said this publicly & we have been warning about this for months. Reports of anything more or different than that are completely false. https://twitter.com/MarquardtA/sta
Now, Posobiec reports that Zelensky's office is also denying CNN's report.
Ostap Yarysh @OstapYarysh
Zelenskys spokesperson about the call with Joe Biden: Some reports regarding the content of the talks between Presidents Volodymyr Zelensky and Joe Biden have appeared on social media, citing the alleged senior Ukrainian official. These messages are completely false
Poster Comment:
These tweets continue at the source.