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Dishonest CNN Article about Donald Trump goes Viral

<p>CNN published an article last Thursday titled &ldquo&semi;Donald Trump says Russia isn&rsquo&semi;t to blame for MH17&comma; despite evidence&period;&rdquo&semi; The network has yet to come out and correct or even apologize for the false headline&period; Meanwhile&comma; the article is being broadcast worldwide&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The incident known as &ldquo&semi;MH17&rdquo&semi; refers to the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 that was shot down last year by a Russian surface-to-air missile called an SA-11&period; The crash killed all 298 passengers&period; As Donald Trump has said multiple times in interviews with CNN and MSNBC&comma; Russia was &ldquo&semi;probably&rdquo&semi; involved&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Not only has CNN&rsquo&semi;s lie traveled across America&comma; it has made its way to other countries including Ukraine and Iran&semi; the later of which published an article titled &ldquo&semi;US should not blame Russia for crash of Malaysian airliner&colon; Donald Trump&period;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The false article cites an interview Trump did with MSNBC on October 14th in which he spoke about MH17&period; He remained solid in his opinion that Russia was &ldquo&semi;probably&rdquo&semi; to blame for the crash&period; While the content of the article may be true&comma; publishing a story with a false title is a blatant smear of presidential hopeful Donald Trump&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Funny enough&comma; the interview began with Trump commenting that everyone in America knows they are being lied to by mainstream media&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Host Katy Tur brought up the topic of MH17&comma; explaining that most people blame Russian-supported Ukrainian insurgents&period; When asked if he would hold Putin accountable for the tragedy&comma; Trump replied that although we can&rsquo&semi;t be 100&percnt; certain who shot down the plane&comma; Russia was probably to blame&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;Well&comma; you know they say it wasn&rsquo&semi;t them&comma; it may have been their weapon&comma; but they didn&rsquo&semi;t use it&comma; they didn&rsquo&semi;t fire it&comma; they even said the other side fired it to blame them&period; I mean to be honest with you&comma; you&rsquo&semi;ll probably never know for sure&period; It was probably Russia&period; It was probably people involved with&comma; on the pro-Russia side&period; But I think we have to straighten our own problems out right now&comma; Katy&period; We have some very big problems&hellip&semi;&rdquo&semi; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The only controversy here is that Trump would not put sanctions on Russia if elected president&period; He thinks we can just sweep this whole incident under the rug&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;It&rsquo&semi;s a long ways away&period; We have to get back to making America great again&comma;&rdquo&semi; said Trump&period; &ldquo&semi;It&rsquo&semi;s terrible&comma; but we really probably won&&num;8217&semi;t know for sure&period; And you&rsquo&semi;ll probably never find out&period; There are only a few people that know&period; And you know one of them could be Putin&comma; frankly&comma; and we know one thing&colon; he&rsquo&semi;s not going to be talking about it&period;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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