Donald Trump Jr. slammed ABC News for stunning journalistic malpractice by initially reporting candidate Trump, not President-Elect Trump directed Michael Flynn to contact Russian officials.

“@ABC retracts their misleading “bombshell” and removes their tweet approximately 12 hours after they knew it to be false. I know it’s rare for you guys to get more than 200 RTs so I guess you milk it when you can?!?! #fakenews,” the president’s son tweeted.

.@ABC retracts their misleading “bombshell” and removes their tweet approximately 12 hours after they knew it to be false. I know it’s rare for you guys to get more than 200 RTs so I guess you milk it when you can?!?! #fakenews — Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) December 2, 2017

“CORRECTION of ABC News Special Report: Flynn prepared to testify that President-elect Donald Trump directed him to make contact with the Russians *during the transition* — initially as a way to work together to fight ISIS in Syria, confidant now says,” ABC News tweets hours later.

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CORRECTION of ABC News Special Report: Flynn prepared to testify that President-elect Donald Trump directed him to make contact with the Russians *during the transition* — initially as a way to work together to fight ISIS in Syria, confidant now says. https://t.co/ewrkVZTu2K pic.twitter.com/URLiHf3uSm — ABC News (@ABC) December 2, 2017

Jouro-Twitter slammed ABC News’ slow response to correct.

ABC's outrageous error: Will there be disciplinary action? The network declined to say when @oliverdarcy asked. Details in @ReliableSources: https://t.co/s7kfwAjkOi — Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) December 2, 2017

This is a huge blunder by ABC today and it impacted the market today-getting it right is key: “ABC News Issues On-Air Clarification to Report About Flynn Russian Outreach and Trump | Mediaite https://t.co/5cHVbBeaQP — Greta Van Susteren (@greta) December 2, 2017

.@ABC “news” owes it viewers an apology. Calling false reporting a “clarification” is a cop out and just another reason for the decline in trust of the media — Sean Spicer (@seanspicer) December 2, 2017

https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/936763005949435904

Take your time https://t.co/0smK9241qd — Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) December 2, 2017

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As The Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft reported, by the time ABC News corrected its story, the stock market had already been spooked.

Stocks crashed by 350 points on Friday following a report by Brian Ross at ABC News that that General Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser, would testify that he was directed to make contact with Russians during the presidential campaign in 2016.