CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan Pushes Back On MAGA Fan Attacking Trump ‘Pubic Hair’ Letter: Wasn’t It Just ‘A Good Scoop?’
Senior CNN correspondent Donie O’Sullivan pushed back on a pro-Trump White House reporter who attacked the Wall Street Journal story on the letter President Donald Trump reportedly sent to Jeffrey Epstein.
Trump flipped out and sued the WSJ after it dropped a hotly anticipated profile of the Trump-Epstein relationship that included a highly suggestive note — which Trump vehemently denied writing. It was described as being “framed by the outline of a naked woman, which appears to be hand-drawn with a heavy marker. A pair of small arcs denotes the woman’s breasts, and the future president’s signature is a squiggly ‘Donald’ below her waist, mimicking pubic hair.”
O’Sullivan, who specializes in reporting on the fringes of the conservative and pro-Trump movement, has been tracking the new MAGA denizens for months. This week, he pressed several of them about the rift that has opened up over Trump and Epstein.
In one exchange, Breitbart News reporter Matthew Boyle called the WSJ story an “attack,” but O’Sullivan countered by asking if it wasn’t just “a good scoop”:
O’SULLIVAN (VO): Some in MAGA were initially unhappy with Trump’s handling of the Epstein case, but after “The Wall Street Journal” broke this story and Trump denied it and sued the paper for defamation, many in the MAGA base rallied to his defense.
BANNON: This is a centerpiece of the deep state trying to destroy Trump, going to destroy Trump and going to destroy the MAGA movement.
MATTHEW BOYLE, WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF, BREITBART NEWS: In the wake of “The Wall Street Journal” attack on the president, I think the administration has already taken several of the steps that that are going to be good steps in the right direction. So, but the idea that Donald Trump is covering up the whole Jeffrey Epstein thing like that doesn’t make sense, right?
O’SULLIVAN (VO): Matthew Boyle is Washington bureau chief for Breitbart, an outlet that supports Trump but has asked questions about Epstein.
O’SULLIVAN: You mentioned “The Wall Street Journal” story as an attack. I mean, was that an attack or was it just “The Wall Street Journal” reporting a good scoop?
BOYLE: Well, the president says that he never wrote that thing, and I
have no reason to believe that he did, right? Like I at this point, I don’t know —
O’SULLIVAN: But their reporting shows —
BOYLE: Well, their reporting says that he did write like they say that. But I mean, we’ve seen other media outlets get stories wrong about President Trump.
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