White House slams CNN over wrong photo of principal deputy press secretary Raj Shah

The Trump administration is slamming CNN for another error – this time, using an incorrect photo for White House principal deputy press secretary Raj Shah.

While displaying a comment by Shah, CNN’s accompanying photo showed a different Raj Shah, who is the President of the Rockefeller Foundation. According to The Hill, “the pictured Shah was administrator of USAID under former President Obama. The two are not related.”

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders pointed out the error in a tweet, “@CNN this is definitely not @RajShah45 but it is #FakeNews.”

Sanders’ tweet was posted around the time President Trump was delivering his campaign-style speech in Pensacola, Florida.

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In his address, Trump also took aim at CNN but for the error in reporting the date the Trump campaign received an email, which offered access to WikiLeaks documents.

The president lashed out at the network in a string of tweets on Saturday as well.

“Fake News CNN made a vicious and purposeful mistake yesterday,” Trump tweeted in part. “They were caught red handed.”

CNN later issued a correction, noting that they have updated the “story to include the correct date, and present the proper context for the timing of email.”

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