{"id":337706,"date":"2017-12-03T10:40:34","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T09:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-welcomes-abc-suspending-russia-witch-hunt-reporter-for-horrendously-inaccurate-flynn-story-rt-us-news\/"},"modified":"2017-12-03T10:40:34","modified_gmt":"2017-12-03T09:40:34","slug":"trump-welcomes-abc-suspending-russia-witch-hunt-reporter-for-horrendously-inaccurate-flynn-story-rt-us-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-welcomes-abc-suspending-russia-witch-hunt-reporter-for-horrendously-inaccurate-flynn-story-rt-us-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump welcomes ABC suspending \u2018Russia Witch Hunt\u2019 reporter for \u2018horrendously inaccurate\u2019 Flynn story \u2014 RT US News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2017.12\/thumbnail\/5a23acb4fc7e93de3f8b4568.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><time class=\"date date_article-header\">Published time: 3 Dec, 2017 08:10 <\/time><time class=\"date date_article-header\">Edited time: 3 Dec, 2017 08:12 <\/time><\/p>\n<p>        Donald Trump has welcomed ABC\u2019s move to suspend its chief investigative journalist Brian Ross for what the US president branded a \u201chorrendously inaccurate and dishonest\u201d report on Mike Flynn\u2019s guilty plea. The report temporarily caused stocks to plummet.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__text text  js-mediator-article\">\n<p>\u201c<em>Congratulations to @ABC News for suspending Brian Ross for his horrendously inaccurate and dishonest report on the Russia, Russia, Russia Witch Hunt. More Networks and \u201cpapers\u201d should do the same with their Fake News!\u201d<\/em> the president tweeted.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"ru\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congratulations to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ABC<\/a> News for suspending Brian Ross for his horrendously inaccurate and dishonest report on the Russia, Russia, Russia Witch Hunt. More Networks and \u201cpapers\u201d should do the same with their Fake News!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/937145025359761408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">3 \u0434\u0435\u043a\u0430\u0431\u0440\u044f 2017 \u0433.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>ABC News made headlines again on Saturday when it announced that the network had suspended Ross for four weeks without pay for a \u201c<em>serious error<\/em>\u201d in his reporting about former National Security Adviser (NSA) Michael Flynn\u2019s guilty plea. During a live \u201cSpecial Report\u201d on Friday Ross said, citing anonymous sources, that Flynn allegedly agreed to testify that during the 2016 election campaign then-candidate Trump told him to contact Russian officials. However, Ross\u2019 source later told the journalist that the order came when Trump had already won the election and was president-elect.<\/p>\n<p>The channel was forced to issue a \u201c<em>clarification\u201d<\/em> that <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/abc-news-statement-michael-flynn-report\/story?id=51536475\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stated<\/a> that \u201ci<em>t was shortly after the election that President-elect Trump directed Flynn to contact Russian officials on topics that included working jointly against ISIS [Islamic State, IS].\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>ABC News added in a statement that it \u201c<em>deeply regretted and apologized for the serious error<\/em>\u201d made by Ross. \u201c<em>The reporting conveyed by Brian Ross during the special report had not been fully vetted through our editorial standards process. As a result of our continued reporting over the next several hours ultimately we determined the information was wrong and we corrected the mistake on air and online.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/411772-trump-abc-false-flynn-report\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published time: 3 Dec, 2017 08:10 Edited time: 3 Dec, 2017 08:12 Donald Trump has welcomed ABC\u2019s move to suspend its chief investigative journalist Brian Ross for what the US president branded a \u201chorrendously inaccurate and dishonest\u201d report on Mike Flynn\u2019s guilty plea. The report temporarily caused stocks to plummet. \u201cCongratulations to @ABC News for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":337707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-337706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}