‘EVIL LOSERS!!!’ Trump Lashes Out at NY Times, CNN for Reporting Iran’s ‘FAKE TEN POINT PLAN’

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President Donald Trump lashed out at The New York Times and CNN late on Wednesday, accusing the outlets of spreading a “totally FAKE TEN POINT PLAN” outlining Iran’s peace proposal as competing accounts of a potential deal emerge.

In a post to Truth Social, the president railed against the outlets as “EVIL LOSERS” who had circulated a “HOAX” framework that risked derailing diplomatic efforts. He wrote:

​​The Failing New York Times and Fake News CNN each reported a totally FAKE TEN POINT PLAN on the Iran negotiations which was meant to discredit the people involved in the peace process. All ten points were a made up HOAX – EVIL LOSERS!!! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN

The outburst followed reports referencing a ten-point proposal attributed to Tehran reportedly sent to the White House via Pakistani mediators and outlining the regime’s alleged terms for a long-term deal with the U.S. The same list was later published by Iran’s state news agency and also circulated to CNN and The Times. Other outlets, including PBS, also issued similar reports on the plan.

Among the provisions were references to the “acceptance of [nuclear] enrichment,” continuing Iranian control of the Strait of Hormuz, and U.S. withdrawal from the Middle East.

When calling the ceasefire, Trump referred to having received a plan from Tehran that he called a “workable basis on which to negotiate,” but during a presser on Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Iran’s initial 10-point “wish list” had been “literally thrown in the garbage” by the president. Tehran reportedly later sent a revised plan. She likewise called the reporting “inaccurate.”

The reported framework differs sharply from a separate 15-point proposal put forward by U.S. negotiators in earlier talks. Trump has previously claimed that many elements of the American plan “have already been agreed to.”

A CNN spokesperson told Mediaite that the outlet stands by it’s reporting and highlighted a previous statement issued on the matter:

Speaking to CNN anchor Anderson Cooper on Wednesday night, the network’s chief global affairs correspondent Matthew Chance said that while Trump insisted the plan was “fake” that CNN journalists had reached out to Iran’s foreign ministry to verify and that Tehran provided “exactly the same document” that had been reported on.

The Times spokesperson Nicole Taylor shared the following statement with Mediaite:

Yesterday’s article reported on a plan that was directly released by Iranian state media, detailing what it said was the 10-point framework for talks. The story makes clear that this is Iran’s own version of the proposal; our reporting also prominently notes that, according to a White House official, this plan is not the same as the one President Trump said was a “workable basis” for negotiations. Our reporting on this ongoing story is clear about Iran’s demands and Washington’s aims, giving readers fact-based journalism instead of inflammatory Truth Social posts.

The newspaper’s communications team then added the response beneath an independent account on X that shares the president’s Truth Social posts on the platform.

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