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With a haircut like that I think I would hide

Because journalism is dead.

Most likely because the trump regime or trump himself wanted to distract from his inept leadership that has cost tens of thousands of American lives

The TL;DR is - Rumor website in SK published it - SK said it was bunk - People in the IC told CNN they were looking into it, probably from that rumor site - CNN published the article - Everyone took it as fact and republished their own version everywhere So many failures here

I believe CNN broke the "death bed" story. So right from the get go, the reporting was considered unreliable.