Chris Cuomo Tears Into WSJ ‘Hack Job’ Reporting on Trump’s ‘Meaningless’ Letter to Epstein: ‘It’s So Stupid’
NewsNation host Chris Cuomo ripped into the Wall Street Journal over its report on a birthday letter President Donald Trump sent notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, calling the story a “hack job” that “doesn’t move the needle in this country.”
The exclusive reporting comes at a time when the nation’s curiosity about what is in the “Epstein Files” is piqued. Serious questions from even Trump’s most loyal media surrogates representing the MAGA movement have turned to the Trump administration, in particular the DOJ led by AG Pam Bondi, in a critical manner the likes of which we’ve never seen.
Still, in that context, Cuomo remains unmoved.
“I get that he’s pissed off, OK? And he’s not wrong,” Cuomo said. “This Wall Street Journal piece is a hack job, OK?”
Cuomo added: “The letter is meaningless. You put out the piece anyway. And there’s no light on what really matters.”
Not even WSJ owner Rupert Murdoch was safe from Cuomo’s rant, as the host sarcastically clapped for the 94-year-old media mogul, saying, “It’s gonna make you some money, Rupert. Great for you, just what you need.”
Trump has threatened to sue Murdoch’s “ass off” over the report, which he calls “FAKE.”
Read Cuomo’s full rant here:
I’m reading this thing on Truth Social right now. I know I’m up [intelligable] again. It’s amazing what we miss it on NewsNation, but what they pay attention to. I know I’m on live TV right now, OK guys? Don’t panic. I’m reading this Truth Social thing that my producer Ben was just telling me about. But it is written in the third person. So I don’t know why the president does that. I don’t know why talks about himself in the third person, but I get that he’s pissed off, OK? And he’s not wrong. This Wall Street Journal piece is a hack job, OK? And he says he’s suing Rupert Murdoch, who, you know, is his buddy. Fox kind of made Trump, you know. And he’s suing the Journal, he’s suing everybody. He says he didn’t write the birthday letter that they’re ascribing to him to Epstein for his 50th birthday. It’s so stupid, OK? The Epstein story is about abusing kids who didn’t have the power or agency to do anything about it. That rich and powerful people may have known it was going on and they got away with it. That’s the story, OK? It’s not that Trump liked a scumbag, OK? Now I get that in the media, this is great because it’s bad for Trump but he’s going crazy and he’s going to pump and move the story for the Wall Street Journal right now by saying it’s fake and it’s wrong, but it doesn’t move the needle in the country. It’s going to make you some money, Rupert. [clapping] Great for you. Just what you need. But this is why we can’t get anywhere. The guy says I didn’t write the letter. The letter is meaningless. You put out the piece anyway. And there’s no light on what really matters. Anyway, I’m going to take a break right now because I talk too much…
Watch above via NewsNation.
