Chris Cuomo Torches NYT Over Iran Headline Pushing ‘Perception’ Trump ‘Failed’: ‘Dirty People in the Media’

NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo tore into The New York Times over a headline he argued pushed the false “perception” that President Donald Trump’s strikes against Iran’s nuclear sites failed.

Cuomo on Thursday red flagged what he referred to as a need for extreme perceptions in today’s political landscape. One example of this, according to ex-CNN host, was a Times headline on Trump’s strikes against Iran that read: “Some of Iran’s Enriched Uranium Survived Attacks, Israeli Official Says.”

Cuomo pointed out that typically 60% of readers simply read a headline while a quarter make it halfway through an article.

“Do you know who knows that? The Times and other dirty people in the media,” he said.

Cuomo argued the Times pushed a “we’re screwed” headline.

“They know you’re going to take it like that,” he said. “The perception is Trump failed and the regime can make a bomb. What’s the reality? Deep down in the piece, deep down — you had to read this one.”

To “cover their hiney,” he further argued, the Times wrote “that the equipment needed to enrich the uranium to make a nuke had been ‘damaged or destroyed, probably beyond repair.'”

“A little different than the headline, huh? And they say — they quote an Israeli official in the headline, right? Well, I guess it wasn’t the same one because Israel is not concerned because ‘any attempts by Iran to recover’ the uranium would be ‘detected — and there would be time to attack the facilities again.’… Talk about perverting perception to distort reality,” Cuomo said.

Trump approved strikes against Iran last month following tensions rising between the country and Israel. There has been debate about the specific effectiveness of the strikes, but Trump and other officials have said the use of a dozen bunker-busting GBU-57 bombs set back Iran’s nuclear programs by years.

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