Fox’s Shep Smith Defends CNN Over ‘Belittling’ from Trump

Fox News’ Shep Smith took a moment at the end of his broadcast today to stand up for CNN after Trump went after Fox’s cable rival at his earlier press conference.

Trump today got combative with CNN’s Jim Acosta in response to their report about intel that was presented to him purportedly containing “compromising” information of questionable accuracy about him. CNN has taken great pains to emphasize that their report was different from BuzzFeed’s more-criticized report that included a dossier of such alleged information.

Trump even called CNN “fake news” at one point at the presser.

On Fox, Smith made this brief remark earlier today:

“CNN’s exclusive reporting on the Russian matter was separate and distinctly different from the document dump executed by an online news property. Though we at Fox News cannot confirm CNN’s report, it is our observation that its correspondents follow journalistic standards and that neither they nor any other journalists should be subjected to belittling or delegitimizing by the President-elect of the United States.”

Watch above, via Fox News.

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