Natasha Bertrand

Proof CNN Is Lying They Said Strike Assessment Was 'Low Confidence'
Following the highly anticipated Pentagon press conference from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chairman Air Force General Dan Caine, where the former called out the lies of the liberal media, on Thursday, CNN News Central hosts Kate Bolduan and Sara Sidner rushed to falsely claim that Hegseth had “confirmed” their reporting about the untrue battle damage assessment…

GPS REDUX? Legacy Newscasts Tout Leaked DIA Bombing Damage Assessment
The leaked and Natasha Bertrand-laundered Defense Intelligence Agency assessment of the aftermath of Operation Midnight Hammer, the U.S. bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities in Natanz, Esfahan and Fordow, quickly made it to the top of the legacy media evening news. Its promise of a minor setback for Iran’s nuclear program, as opposed to total destruction, was uniformly parroted, touted and…

CNN's Iran Leak Spreader Reported Fake News on Hunter Biden's Laptop
CNN is aerobically back-patting national security correspondent Natasha Bertrand for her "incredible reporting" suggesting the Trump team wasn't very successful in it's bunker-busting of Iran's nuclear facilities. She always finds anonymous sources inside the intelligence community who assist in the anti-Trump spin. They don't mention her previous "incredible" intel disinformation on Hunter…

Trump, Hegseth SLAM CNN, NBC Over Deep State Leak on Iran Strikes
On Wednesday during his press conference on the sidelines of the annual NATO summit, President Trump tag-teamed with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to obliterate the new Deep State leak to CNN’s Natasha Bertrand — who penned the infamous article declaring Hunter Biden’s laptop to be Russian disinformation — that claimed the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) has deemed the weekend U.S. military…

NewsBusters Podcast: Don't Write, Talk or Tweet About Hunter's Laptop!
Two Politico alums -- Tara Palmeri and Marc Caputo -- dropped a bombshell about how their old employer mandated bias by omission on Hunter Biden in 2020: "Don’t write about the laptop, don’t talk about the laptop, don’t tweet about the laptop." Their "cowardly editors" made "dumb decisions"!

Former Politico Reporters Reveal Hunter Biden Stories Nixed Internally
It is one thing to look at the awful suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story ahead of the 2020 presidential election and imagine what happened. It is entirely another to watch reporters confirm these suppressions and talk about them openly.

CNN SEETHES Over Hegseth Hearing, Continues Peddling Conspiracies
On Tuesday afternoon following Pete Hegseth’s five-hour-and-15-minute-long confirmation hearing to lead the Pentagon, CNN immediately made clear it was not having a good time, continuing to peddle the alcoholism and tattoo conspiracy theories about the “Kavanaugh-esque” Hegseth, suggested he was in over his head, and Democratic senators asked apt and thorough questions.

Politico Upset that WhatsApp Doesn't Censor Election News
Politico has raised concerns about message dissemination on WhatsApp Channels, a new broadcast platform by tech firm Meta. The platform currently lacks explicit disinformation rules regarding election periods, which critics, including lawmakers and former Meta employees, believe could pose serious risks due to the global voting runs this year. However, WhatsApp Channels uses community…

On Hunter's Trial, POLITICO Tiptoes Around Its 2020 Laptop-aganda
This blog post criticizes Politico for denying its role in promoting the discredited theory that the Hunter Biden laptop scandal was Russian misinformation during the 2020 election. The post suggests that in recent coverage of the Hunter Biden trial, Politico attempted to distance itself from its previous stance, which it claims contributed to social media suppression of the scandal. The blog…

Politico Worries Trump Will Politicize Intelligence Agencies
This blog criticizes Politico's national security reporter Erin Banco and her colleague John Sakellariadis for expressing concern over the predicted politicization of the intelligence community in the event of a second Trump presidency. The blog asserts that the intelligence community was already politicized during Trump’s first term, citing examples such as FISA warrants being issued…

Natasha Bertrand, Purveyor of Biggest 2020 Fake News, Promoted by CNN
CNN has promoted Natasha Bertrand, a journalist previously criticised for promoting fake news stories, including the debunked claim that the Hunter Biden laptop story was a result of Russian disinformation. Bertrand also notoriously backed the false Trump-Russia collusion narrative. This decision drew criticism from various commentators, including Mollie Hemingway of The Federalist, who…

NewsBusters Podcast: Hunter Biden Scoops, Michelle Obama's 'Epic' Goop
Surprise! Stories broke about the Hunter Biden investigation this week, and some networks actually covered them for a bit. Meanwhile, Michelle Obama drew typical goop about her "epic lines" and whether she would please her superfans by running for president someday.

ABC, NBC Hide BRUTAL News on Intel Letter Dismissing Hunter’s Laptop
The news got worse Thursday for Hunter Biden as it was revealed now-Secretary of State Antony Blinken was the catalyst behind the debunked and infamous October 2020 letter from former intelligence officials dismissing the surfacing of Hunter Biden’s laptop as Russian disinformation. This bombshell showing more interference in the 2020 election was nowhere to be found on the Thursday night…

Column: The Steele Dossier Boosters Lecture Fox News on Truth?
It’s a heady time for the badly disguised Democrats in the “objective media,” seeing Fox News settle a fake-news lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems over wild and unproven claims of massing voting-machine fraud. But a new book excerpt from “BuzzFeed Ben” Smith should remind everyone that the same “Truth Matters” cheerleaders accepted wild and unproven claims about Donald Trump willy-nilly.…