Elijah Cummings and other Democrats were grandstanding this morning on the Mike Flynn crime of the century Russian phone call, when Cummings quoted from a fake tweet while bashing Flynn. It comes early in this clip:
Rep. Cummings on Flynn: Something is wrong here… we have to get to the bottom of this https://t.co/ssKgit7fF9
— CNN Newsroom (@CNNnewsroom) February 14, 2017
Here’s the fake tweets:
During a press conference just now, Elijah Cummings cited these tweets from a fake Mike Flynn account to bash him. pic.twitter.com/GH7OlPLbsO
— David Martosko (@dmartosko) February 14, 2017
The New York Times mistakenly published these fake tweets in an article earlier today, before checking to see if they were real.
In the era of Trump, I guess it’s too much to ask liberal news orgs and congressmen to get their facts straight before publishing or speaking.