CNN employees gleefully DEFEND horrendous #CNNBlackmail scandal

CNN personalities are completely unapologetic for CNN’s disgusting blackmail of a private citizen.

On Sunday, President Trump tweeted a GIF of him clotheslining a WWE wrestler with a CNN logo Photoshopped over his face. Taking the president’s dumb joke personally, CNN released a statement that said the tweet "encourages violence against reporters." Not content to criticize just the president, CNN began a search for the private citizen who created the video.

CNN “reporter” Andrew Kaczynski tracked the guy down. He is a Reddit user who goes by the username “HanAssholeSolo” and has previously made several racist or anti-Semitic posts to Reddit to troll other users. Fearful for his identity to be revealed by CNN, HanAssholeSolo issued an apology for his internet posts and asked CNN to preserve his anonymity.

Instead of simply agreeing to his request, CNN took his identity hostage.

The message is perfectly clear: If this Reddit user issues any more offending posts, repeats his “ugly behavior” on the internet, or makes fun of CNN again, CNN will out his identity. Some have called this blackmail. Others have called it a threat. CNN calls it “journalism.”

Does anyone at CNN recognize what they did was wrong?

This line is being misinterpreted. It was intended only to mean we made no agreement w/the man about his identity. https://t.co/9FL6EvTikx

— andrew kaczynski ?? (@KFILE) July 5, 2017