A reporter who helped spread the unverified and unsubstantiated dossier claiming there was collusion between President Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia also circulated a photoshopped picture of Trump holding a Russian flag, admitting his mistake but declining to apologize.
David Corn, the Washington bureau chief for the openly left-wing Mother Jones publication, was one of the first reporters to write about ex-British spy Christopher Steele’s dossier, which included a slew of unsubstantiated claims and has been widely discredited since being published in early 2018.