CNN’s Tapper Rips W.H. for Pushing ‘Alternative Facts’ on NSC Changes

‘Those Are Alternative Facts’: Tapper Rips White House for Portrayal of National Security Council (Mediaite)

Earlier today at the White House press briefing, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer — with the help of props — said that any suggestions the White House made a major shakeup of the National Security Council were “utter nonsense.” This was in the wake of reports that chief strategist and former Breitbart publisher Steve Bannon was given a seat at the council.

Well, CNN’s Jake Tapper didn’t take too kindly to that description. While hosting The Lead, Tapper used a term the Trump Administration recently coined to hit back at them.

“To be charitable, those are alternative facts from our friends at the White House,” the anchor stated. “National security experts in the presidential memorandum making the change disagree.”