Don’t think CNN made a “mistake”...it was intentional just like this AP fictional story.
I don’t think much of this “fake news” is anything more than propaganda to produce a first impression that people will believe. Tell a lie enough times and people will believe it.
The “news media” is being undone (used by) the still in place Obamabots, and the “news media” is getting stuck with the egg on their face - while the Obamabots in the permanent government remain in place.
How many of you remember the Fake News being sent home by these activists/reporters about Vietnam? Their deleterious bar-stool copy and the ubiquitous Walter Cronkite jumped everyone and announced the war was over....leaving some ongoing pretty awful fire fights...with no back up from their military as they were told to “cease fire”...the rest is history...the ‘reporters’ are messing up the message again as fast as they can....why believe anything they print or say? Find the reliable ones and promote them by word of mouth.