CNN was forced to issue a “clarification” after a discussion about mail-in ballots with Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger.
The pair breathlessly exchanged fears about President Donald Trump’s crackdown on mail-in ballots, when host Wolf Blitzer implied that even those sent into the country from overseas would be negatively impacted. One week after making this statement, he issued a “note of clarification” on the subject, pointing out that what he said wasn’t true.
Watch:
NEW: CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer just issued a “quick note of clarification” after falsely suggesting U.S. troops would be impacted by Trump’s executive order cracking down on mail-in ballots following an exchange he had with Dem Virginia Gov Abigail Spanberger last week.
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— TV News Now (@TVNewsNow) August 31, 2026
“A quick note of clarification. On Friday, I interviewed the Democratic Governor of Virginia, Abigail Spanberger. We discussed legal challenges to the Trump administration’s directives for the Postal Service on mail-in voting. A comment I made suggested that U.S. military and overseas voters’ ballots would be impacted by these directives. I want to be clear right now: those ballots are exempt from the Postal Service’s new rules implementing the president’s March executive order. Those groups are covered under the Uniformed and Overseas Absentee Voting Act, just to be specific on that point.”
X users weren’t impressed:
Translating from CNN BS: we got caught by another independent fact checker and our latest attempt to blame it on Trump was disproved … the tactics taught @ the Goebbels School of Propaganda is no bueno
— Mike Shapiro (@MikeShap17) September 1, 2026
Keep lying CNN Keep lying. pic.twitter.com/nHCJtapvHz
— DavisCon (@DavisConGOP) September 1, 2026
Remember when Al gore tried to stop counting military absentee ballots in Florida?
— darin morris (@darinmorris191) September 1, 2026
@cnn He knew that when he interviewed her.he is just too weak and your network is too partisan to push back on her statement as you should have. That is why nobody watches you or trusts you.
— Mitch Varner CFP® (@MitchVarner1) September 1, 2026
You let that propaganda simmer for over a week and you spend only a few seconds redacting those lies.
— Otto Penn (@Ricovali708) September 1, 2026
Blitzer is too stupid to know the Commander and Chief wouldn’t fail to arrange for enlisted personnel to vote.
— (@Fr0zenCharlotte) September 1, 2026
You’d think research before saying it would have been in order.
— Bellintheheart (@joanwortham1) September 1, 2026
Trump has these lying pieces of shit scared to death because they know they will be sued and run out of business, it’s about time especially with this fraud
— Harold Allen (@HaroldA83596789) September 1, 2026
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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