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So right-wing media continues the deliberate degradation of information, and then pulls it back when threatened with legal action. OAN is not really all that different from Fox, where Jesse Watters gleefully spreads manure on the air. Via the Daily Beast:
Far-right cable news network One America News apologized to Donald Trumps former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen Monday after retracting a report that suggested herather than Trump himselfhad been the one who carried out an affair with adult film star Stormy Daniels. The affair in question, and a subsequent hush-money payout to Daniels orchestrated by Trump and Cohen, is at the center of Trumps first criminal trial, which opened two weeks ago in New York City.
OAN today has retracted its March 27 article entitled Whistleblower: Avenatti Alleged Cohen Daniels Affair Since 2006, Pre-2016 Trump Extortion Plan, and is taking it down from all sites and removing it from all social media, a note from the network reads. This retraction is part of a settlement reached with Michael Cohen. Mr. Avenatti has denied making the allegations. OAN apologizes to Mr. Cohen for any harm the publication may have caused him.
The article, quoting a source, falsely claimed that Mr. Cohen and Ms. Daniels were having an affair since 2006 and that, according to a source, the whole hush money scheme was cooked up by [Mr. Cohen] to extort the Trump Organization before the 2016 election. These statements were false. OAN regrets their publication.
Cohen quickly hired a well-known defamation lawyer after the story appeared, and they quickly withdrew the story.
https://crooksandliars.com/2024/04/oan-news-network-retracts-story-about
Fox News folded today on its Hunter Biden libel, and OAN did the same with its Michael Cohen smear. Both Biden and Cohen should sue the useless bastards anyway.
Lovie777
(12,448 posts)the lie is still out there........................
mercuryblues
(14,574 posts)plant a story like that, with a fake news network?
getagrip_already
(15,034 posts)Jilly_in_VA
(10,045 posts)OAN and Faux Noise had to retract every lie they ever told, they wouldn't have time to make up any new ones!