Multi-billion dollar corporation CNN is Extorting a Private Citizen over a Joke Tweet!

CNN reported Tuesday that they declined to publicly identify the Reddit user who created the Trump CNN wrestling video because he promised not to do it again.

CNN reporter Andrew Kaczynski then went on to say, “CNN reserves the right to publish his identity should any of that change.”

That is extortion.

They threatened to dox him.

CNN received a huge backlash after they threatened to release the identity of the Reddit user who created the anti-CNN video, but that didn’t stop Chris Cuomo from doubling down early Wednesday morning. Cuomo sent out a tweet saying, “Should CNN reveal the name of Reddit user who made Trump wrestling video? Had a lot of bigoted and hateful material on page and website.”

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Cuomo deleted the tweet minutes after posting it. Perhaps his handlers at CNN advised him to as they have possibly committed a FEDERAL FELONY by threatening the Reddit user. Twitter users hammered CNN with more memes and videos using the hashtag ‘CNNBlackmail’. CNN just doesn’t understand how this works.

Founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange tweeted out late Tuesday night, ‘CNN committed a crime, violating 135.60 of the New York criminal code.’ Below is a description of the code:

But it may be worse than what Julian Assange posted.

It may be a federal felony.

Via TGP commenter Levon:

18 U.S. Code § 241 – Conspiracy against rights. If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; or If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured— They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.

Tweet screenshotted by @ToothHurty6