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Trump threatens to sue NYT, CNN over misleading story on damage to Iran nuke program, paper claims

June 27, 2025 | | Print Article

President Donald J. Trump is reportedly threatening to sue The New York Times over its reporting of an illegally leaked top-secret Pentagon assessment about Iran’s nuclear sites after they were bombed last weekend.

On Thursday, the Times claimed that the president’s personal lawyer Alejandro Brito sent a letter to the paper arguing that the June 24 report which boosted a CNN report that Operation Midnight Hammer was a failure, had damaged Trump’s reputation and demanded that the left-wing lie factory “retract and apologize for” the article which was described as “false,” “defamatory” and “unpatriotic.”

According to the Times, Trump is also threatening to sue CNN for its sensationally misleading report on the leaked Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) assessment that the damage to the Fordow mountain enrichment facility was less than the obliteration that Trump declared it was and that the mad mullahs’ quest for nuclear weapons had only been set back a few months.

But neither outlet gave attention to a very important detail. The leaked DIA information was a “low-confidence assessment” and not consistent with other intel that significant damage was inflicted on the Iranian nuclear facilities, proving that Trump was right and underscoring how the media will twist and distort the truth so it fits their agenda.

The reported letter was met with defiance by the Times.

“No retraction is needed,” David McCraw, the once-venerable newspaper’s lawyer, responded in a letter, the Times reported.

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“No apology will be forthcoming,”  McCraw added. “We told the truth to the best of our ability. We will continue to do so.”

According to the Times, a CNN spokesperson “confirmed that the network had responded to a similar legal threat from the president’s team.”

The overselling of the “preliminary” damage assessment has become a public relations debacle for the outlets that did not prominently feature the important caveat in their reporting, which was then used by much of the corrupt legacy media to portray the strikes as a failure.

Trump unloaded on the outlets during the NATO summit in the Netherlands, branding them as “scum” and accusing the outlets of “demeaning” the brave bomber pilots who risked their lives to spoil the ayatollah’s nuclear weapons dreams.

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“The U.S. intelligence services issued a preliminary assessment concluding that the attacks delayed Iran’s nuclear program only by a few months. This is what we reported,” McCraw wrote in his defense of the paper’s reporting.

“While the Trump administration protests that the assessments were only preliminary — which, by the way, was the second word of our article — and that later assessments may come to different conclusions, no one in the administration disputes that the first assessments said exactly what the article said they did: The destruction caused by the raid was not as significant as the president’s remarks suggested,” he added.

“FAKE NEWS REPORTERS FROM CNN & THE NEW YORK TIMES SHOULD BE FIRED, IMMEDIATELY!!! BAD PEOPLE WITH EVIL INTENTIONS!!!” Trump said in a post to Truth Social, calling for accountability from the “news” organizations.

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