'FIRE NATASHA!' Trump Wants CNN Reporter Fired and 'Thrown Out Like a Dog'

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President Trump is not happy with a particular CNN reporter. He is calling her a liar.

CNN's Natasha Bertrand, in a report co-authored with Katie Bo Lillis and Zachary Cohen, suggested that the Trump-ordered military airstrikes on Iran Saturday set back that country's nuclear program by only a few months.

In other words, the attack wasn't as effective as the administration has said.

Trump disagrees.

“Natasha Bertrand should be FIRED from CNN!," Trump wrote on Truth Social on Wednesday. "I watched her for three days doing Fake News. She should be IMMEDIATELY reprimanded, and then thrown out ‘like a dog.'"

Trump continued, "She lied on the Laptop from Hell Story, and now she lied on the Nuclear Sites Story, attempting to destroy our Patriot Pilots by making them look bad when, in fact, they did a GREAT job and hit ‘pay dirt’ — TOTAL OBLITERATION!”

The president wasn't done. “She should not be allowed to work at Fake News CNN," he added. "It’s people like her who destroyed the reputation of a once great Network."

"Her slant was so obviously negative, besides, she doesn’t have what it takes to be an on camera correspondent, not even close. FIRE NATASHA!," the President demanded.

CNN is standing behind Bertrand and issued the following statement:

"We stand 100% behind Natasha Bertrand’s journalism and specifically her and her colleagues’ reporting of the early intelligence assessment of the U.S. attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities. CNN’s reporting made clear that this was an initial finding that could change with additional intelligence. We have extensively covered President Trump’s own deep skepticism about it. However, we do not believe it is reasonable to criticize CNN reporters for accurately reporting the existence of the assessment and accurately characterizing its findings, which are in the public interest."

As Trump noted, Bertrand was also part of the "Russian disinformation" narrative that the establishment media formed about Hunter Biden's laptop right before the 2020 election.

Israel agrees with Trump and has said that the U.S. airstrikes on Iran has set back their nuclear program for "many years."

Did Natasha Bertrand spread "fake news?" Did CNN misreport or mislead the public regarding the U.S. attacks on Iran?

President Trump certainly thinks so. And if so, spreading lies is by no means a firing offense at CNN.

We know that much.