MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump took aim Wednesday [8-29-18] at CNN over information it reported last month that relied on anonymous sources, slamming all outlets that rely on such sources and labeling reports based on them ‘fiction made up by the Fake News reporters.’ Trump made specific reference to a CNN story published last month with the headline ‘Cohen claims Trump knew in advance of 2016 Trump Tower meeting,’ a reference to a meeting between Trump campaign officials and a Russian attorney who had been billed as possessing damaging information about Hillary Clinton sourced from the Kremlin. That report attributed its information to unnamed ‘sources with knowledge.’ Lanny Davis, an attorney for Cohen, Trump’s former personal lawyer, has since told BuzzFeed that he was a source for the CNN article and has told The Washington Post that he is no longer sure about assertions he made to CNN and other outlets.”
–Stephanie Murray, “Trump blasts CNN over anonymous sourcing in Cohen report,” Politico, August 29, 2018 9:55 am