The father of a student who survived the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Florida has been accused of doctoring emails with a CNN producer.
Colton Haab, 17, claimed that CNN executive producer Carrie Stevenson scripted a question for him to ask lawmakers in Sunrise, Florida on Wednesday.
Haab’s father, Glenn Haab, sent a Word document of his email exchange with Stevenson to Fox News and HuffPost, reported Daily News.
The father (Glenn Haab pictured here) of a student who survived the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Florida has been accused of doctoring emails with a CNN producer
However, a CNN source then released a different version of the exchange between the pair to Business Insider.
President Trump used this as an opportunity to attack the media as he tweeted on Friday ‘Just like so much of CNN, Fake News. That’s why their ratings are so bad! MSNBC may be worse,’ he wrote early Friday.
A CNN spokesperson said in a statement that Glenn is trying to ‘discredit CNN and the town hall with doctored emails.’
Colton Haab, 17, claimed that CNN executive producer Carrie Stevenson scripted a question for him to ask lawmakers in Sunrise, Florida on Wednesday
In both versions of the email, Stevenson rejects a speech the teen wrote and tries to pin the teenager down to one question she typed out ‘so that we can get to as many people as possible.’
Colton said he refused to attend CNN’s town hall on the massacre because he was asked to read scripted questions.
‘CNN had originally asked me to write a speech and questions, and it ended up being all scripted,’ he said.
Eliza Relman from Business Insider shared the email exchange between CNN and Glenn Habb’s
In both versions of the email, Stevenson rejects a speech the teen wrote and tries to pin the teenager down to one question she typed out ‘so that we can get to as many people as possible’
Colton Haab told Fox News host Tucker Carlson that CNN producers asked him to recite a scripted question
Glenn said, ‘We are not actors nor do we read from a script…I[f] you want Colton only to read this one short question — we are not the right people for your town hall meeting.’
Colton helped 60 to 70 people hide in a Junior ROTC room at the school when Nikolas Cruz started his deadly rampage at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
‘I didn’t think it was going to stop (the bullets) but it would definitely slow it down to make it from a catastrophic to a lifesaving thing,’ he said.
On February 14 Cruz, 19 who was armed with an AR-15 rifle, shot dead 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
President Trump used this as an opportunity to attack the media as he tweeted on Friday ‘Just like so much of CNN, Fake News. That’s why their ratings are so bad! MSNBC may be worse,’ he wrote early Friday
On February 14 Nikolas Cruz, 19 who was armed with an AR-15 rifle, shot dead 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School