Many, many moons ago, the mainstream press was so eager to print any negative story about a sitting United States president that they ended up publishing several stories that were partially or totally false.
Most famous among these was a 2017 CNN story of a Russian bank with close ties to President Trump, who was being investigated over it. The story was so poorly sourced and incorrect that not only was it retracted, but three reporters resigned in disgrace.
In 2019, MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell “said that a source had told him that Deutsche Bank documents showed that Russian oligarchs had co-signed a loan application for Trump.” It was a story he later retracted. That same year, BuzzFeed reported that Robert Mueller was interviewing Michael Cohen, and BuzzFeed somehow knew what they were talking about. Several media outlets quickly countered that report, saying they had heard nothing…
