Overview

• On June 25, President Trump wrote on Truth Social that Natasha Bertrand should be fired and “thrown out ‘like a dog’” for her reporting.
• Bertrand’s June 25 CNN report cited a Defense Intelligence Agency assessment that the strikes on Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan only temporarily delayed Iran’s nuclear program.
• The CNN story contradicted Trump’s assertion that US pilots achieved “total obliteration” and hit “pay dirt” in Operation Midnight Hammer.
• Trump accused Bertrand of false reporting on the “Laptop from Hell” story and claimed her coverage was a politically motivated leak.
• Neither Bertrand nor CNN has publicly responded to the president’s calls for her dismissal.