As NewsBusters had previously documented throughout CNN's programming since Attorney General William Barr sent his summary letter to Congress, the network had made it painfully clear that they would not let go of their false Trump-Russia collusion narrative. Vice President Mike Pence's chief of staff Marc Short was on Wednesday’s The Situation Room on Wednesday and schooled CNN host Wolf Blitzer after he repeatedly insinuated there was something between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Repeatedly, Blitzer pushed Short on why Trump refused to blame Russia for meddling in our elections (even though Trump had done so). “I think there's a lot of evidence that Russia has been a malign character in a lot of this, and they have been looking to sow seeds of discord in lots of ways,” Short began. From there, Short unloaded against the press.

“But can I just say why I think that a lot of the coverage here has been so deranged for the last couple years? Because you continue to see new news stories today, well, what about -- is he going to accept Russia interference or Russia collusion,” Short continued.

Short proceeded to unravel a laundry list of actions President Trump had taken against Russia, some of which included killing Russians (e.g. in Syria and Ukraine):

And yet never does the media take a step back and say, which president is the one that actually armed the Ukrainians? Was it Trump or was it Obama? It was Trump. Which president actually decided to bomb Syria, and in that action actually killed several Russian mercenaries? It was Trump, when Obama just said he was going to draw a red line in the sand. Which president pulled out of INF, against Russian objections? It was Trump. It was not Obama. Which president has kicked out more diplomats? It was Trump, not Obama. Which president has put more sanctions on? It was Trump. It was not Obama. And just today, you saw the president again make statements about Russian interference in Venezuela. This president has stood up to Russia time and again.

“And yet the media continues to push this notion about Russia collusion,” Short decried, “or perhaps, even on your network, I saw this weekend, when the story broke, CNN was saying, well, then why is he always talking so nicely about Putin?”

He also added: “You're not actually looking at the facts of what this administration has done and how hard it's been. Look at the facts.”

CNN busted out the tin foil hats on Monday when OutFront host Erin Burnett was seriously concerned, asking questions about whether the President himself and/or members of his inner circle were “compromised” by the Russians. “That's a crucial question to imagine that we don't know the answer to,” Burnett exclaimed.

During Monday’s Prime Time, host Chris Cuomo argued that “Mueller can't show that Trump did nothing wrong”, and suggested the evidence for collusion, “[a]ll could be folded into the counterintelligence investigation that the AG didn't even mention in miss summary.”

This is CNN.

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