CNN Anchor Reluctantly Tries To Clean Up After Parkland Activist Defames Trump. Twice.

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CNN anchor John Berman reluctantly stepped in to save Cameron Kasky after the Parkland activist-turned-commentator defamed President Donald Trump — twice — during a Monday evening broadcast.

Berman was goaded into covering for Kasky — who twice claimed that Trump was “provably” involved in a “global sex trafficking ring” tied to the late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein — by conservative commentator Scott Jennings, who had to ask whether Berman was going to let the accusation stand.

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“I am appreciative that the president is being transparent about this,” Kasky said in reference to Trump’s designs on Greenland and his anger at not receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. “I would love it if he was more transparent about the human sex trafficking network that he was a part of, but you can’t win them all.”

“Cameron’s grateful that the president is being transparent about the Nobel Peace Prize and his desires for Greenland, Scott, what do you think about that?” Berman asked, ignoring Kasky’s assertion.

“You’re going to let that sit? Are we going to claim here on CNN that the president is part of a global sex trafficking ring? Or —” Jennings pushed back.

“Well, we’re going to talk about the Epstein files, Scott, I will do the fact-checking as we go along here,” Berman protested, and then turned back to Kasky: “Repeat what you said about the global sex trafficking ring.”

“That Donald Trump was provably very involved with it,” Kasky declared.

“Okay, we’ll get to that later,” Berman said, eventually adding, “Donald Trump has never been charged with any crimes in relation to Jeffrey Epstein, but we will talk —”

“Yeah, but let’s be adults here —” Kasky kept digging as Berman quickly scrambled to get him out of the hole.

“We’ll talk about the Epstein files later,” he said to Kasky, before turning back to Jennings and asking, “Satisfied? Now answer the question about Greenland.”

Sometime after the broadcast, Kasky apparently realized the gravity of what he’d said on air and offered an apology in which he also claimed he had twice made the accusation “by accident.”

“I would like to retract my comments from CNN last night and truly apologize. Donald Trump was obviously not involved with a giant international child sex trafficking ring where women and children were systematically raped by elites,” Kasky said in an X post. “I said that by accident and didn’t mean it.”



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