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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 2922367" data-attributes="member: 12952"><a href="http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/presidential/cnn-deletes-retracts-story-linking-trump-and-russia-20170624.html?mobi=true" target="_blank">CNN deletes, retracts story linking Trump and Russia</a>On Thursday evening, CNN investigative reporter Thomas Frank <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/23/politics/editors-note/index.html" target="_blank">published a potentially explosive report</a> involving an investigation of a Russian investment fund with potential ties to several associates of President Donald Trump.Frank, a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2012 while at USA Today, had reported that the Senate Intelligence Committee was investigating a “$10-billion Russian investment fund whose chief executive met with a member of President Donald Trump’s transition team four days before Trump’s inauguration.”But by Friday night, the story was removed from CNN’s website and all links were scrubbed from the network’s social media accounts.“That story did not meet CNN’s editorial standards and has been retracted,” CNN said in an editors note posted in place of the story. “Links to the story have been disabled.”In addition to retracting its story, CNN also apologized to Anthony Scaramucci, an adviser to Trump during the presidential campaign and a member of his transition team’s executive committee, who was mentioned in the story as having met Kirill Dmitriev, the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) that the network said is overseen by Vnesheconombank, a state-run bank that is currently under U.S. sanctions.  RDIF <a href="https://sputniknews.com/business/201706231054913754-rdif-us-sanctions-cnn/" target="_blank">told Sputnik News</a>, a state-run Russian news channel, that the fund is not a part of Vnesheconombank</blockquote>

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