CNN’s Hoax Ledger: The List They Want Forgotten While They Demand Accountability

A Bongino Report Reel that circulated in September 2026 opens with a blunt claim: CNN is furious that Trump is finally holding the network accountable, and it does not want viewers to remember the long record of stories it amplified that later collapsed. The Reel features commentator Shawn Farash reading from a white page titled “CNN Hoaxes,” arguing that courts may not treat the history as relevant but the public record is plain.

The page lists dozens of items. Among those visible and read aloud are the rural America “can’t live without NPR/PBS” claim; the assertion that ICE detained a five-year-old; the Hegseth “kill everybody” framing; the claim that Trump was “destroying” the White House; the photo of a starving Gaza baby; the allegation that Israeli troops murdered food-seeking Palestinians; the prediction that Trump tariffs would explode prices; the Maryland man story; the claim that Black newborns are far more likely to die if the doctor is white; the Elon Musk “Nazi salute”; mass hysterectomies performed on immigrants; the Trump-Liz Cheney “to be executed” claim; the claim that violent crime was down under Biden/Harris; the Arlington Cemetery story; Kamala Harris was never the Border Czar; Russia collusion; hands up, don’t shoot; Jussie Smollett; the Covington Catholic kids; very fine people; the seven-hour gap and Russian bounties; Trump trashes the troops (suckers and losers); policemen killed at a “mostly peaceful” January 6 protest; the Rittenhouse case; “eating while Black”; border agents “whipping” migrants; the Bubba Wallace noose; Georgia’s election law as Jim Crow 2.0; Cassidy Hutchinson’s claim that Trump assaulted Secret Service agents and grabbed the steering wheel of the Beast; the claim that MAGA assaulted Paul Pelosi; the COVID lab-leak theory as racist; Hunter Biden’s laptop as Russian disinformation; the claim that Joe Biden would never ban gas stoves; COVID deaths overcounted as a conspiracy theory; mass graves of native children in Canada; Trump killed Japanese koi; Trump told people to drink bleach; the Hamas hospital; the claim that if reelected Trump would execute people; 900,000 kids hospitalized with coronavirus; dozens of environmental rules; the Alfa Bank story; the murdered non-binary teen; Aaron Rodgers as a Sandy Hook “truther”; the “bloodbath” comment; Biden “sharp as a tack”; the Iowa poll; and the Melania documentary as a box-office flop.

Farash notes the list is incomplete. The Reel’s point is the pattern: stories heavily promoted by CNN and aligned outlets, later walked back, contradicted by evidence, or shown to rest on incomplete or false premises, followed by little lasting institutional reckoning. From a conservative standpoint, the hypocrisy is straightforward. The same network that positioned itself as the arbiter of truth spent years amplifying claims that failed basic scrutiny, then treated later corrections as footnotes while demanding that others be held to a higher standard. When the political costs arrived, the language shifted and the earlier record was minimized. The tape of the statements and the page of the claims remain.