National news media has admitted to falsely reporting that President Donald Trump told a Georgia state official that she would be a “national hero” if she were to “find the fraud.”
The Washington Post issued a correction Monday noting that it misattributed quotes to the former President in its original reporting of a conversation between Trump and an elections investigator from Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office.
“Correction: Two months after publication of this story, the Georgia secretary of state released an audio recording of President Donald Trump’s December phone call with the state’s top elections investigator. The recording revealed that The Post misquoted Trump’s comments on the call, based on information provided by a source. Trump did not tell the investigator to ‘find the fraud’ or say she would be ‘a national hero’ if she did so. Instead, Trump urged the investigator to scrutinize ballots in Fulton County, Ga., asserting she would find ‘dishonesty’ there. He also told her that she had ‘the most important job in the country right now.’ A story about the recording can be found here. The headline and text of this story have been corrected to remove quotes misattributed to Trump.”
“The Secretary of State’s office secretly recorded the conversation, mischaracterized its contents to The Washington Post and then attempted to delete the recording,” tweeted Georgia Republican Party Chairman David Shafer. “It was recently discovered in a laptop ‘trash’ folder as part of an open records search.”
The quotes in question were widely reported, with the Associated Press issuing its own correction Tuesday.
“ATLANTA – In a story January 9, 2021, about a phone call between then-President Donald Trump and a lead Georgia elections investigator, The Associated Press, based on information provided by a source, erroneously reported that Trump pressed the investigator to ‘find the fraud’ and said it would make the investigator a national hero. A recording of the call made public two months later revealed that Trump did not say either and instead said that if the investigator looked into Fulton County the investigator would ‘find things that are gonna be unbelievable.’ Trump also told the investigator: ‘When the right answer comes out, you’ll be praised.'”
“Real bad. this quote was and still is everywhere,” Politico White House Correspondent Alex Thompson said of the corrections.
Many argue that the correction is virtually meaningless, with the misinformation having already been spread and having already inflicted irreversible damage.
“The Washington Post made sure not to issue their correction until well after the Senate changed hands thanks to Georgia,” said OAN’s Jack Posobiec.
The Washington Post made sure not to issue their correction until well after the Senate changed hands thanks to Georgia
— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) March 15, 2021
“So, they made up quotes. What in the actual F,” tweeted Journalist and CNN Contributor Mary Katharine Ham.
Trump himself responded to the correction on Monday, calling the “non-story” a “Hoax, right from the very beginning.”
“While I appreciate the Washington Post’s correction, which immediately makes the Georgia Witch Hunt a non-story, the original story was a Hoax, right from the very beginning,” Trump said.
“You will notice that establishment media errors, omissions, mistakes, and outright lies always slant one way-against me and against Republicans.,” Trump said. “Meanwhile, stories that hurt Democrats or undermine their narratives are buried, ignored, or delayed until they can do the least harm-for example, after an election is over.”
Look no further than the negative coverage of the vaccine that preceded the election and the overdue celebration of the vaccine once the election had concluded. A strong democracy requires a fair and honest press,” Trump added. “This latest media travesty underscores that legacy media outlets should be regarded as political entities-not journalistic enterprises. In any event, I thank the Washington Post for the correction.”
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““Correction: Two months after publication of this story, the Georgia secretary of state released an audio recording of President Donald Trump’s December phone call with the state’s top elections investigator”. Like I stated in past columns, the Georgia Secretary of State and the Georgia Governor “fixed” the election in Georgia, so Trump couldn’t win the state. Now this tape is released, two months after the story in the Washington Post, to make a correction??????? “The Secretary of State’s office secretly recorded the conversation, mischaracterized its contents to The Washington Post and then attempted to delete the recording,” tweeted Georgia Republican Party Chairman David Shafer. “It was recently discovered in a laptop ‘trash’ folder as part of an open records search.” The Georgia Secretary of State and the Georgia Governor, both Republicans In Name Only, committed fraud against Trump and they should go to jail for recording Trump’s conversation and then trying to delete it. Scum criminals!!!!!
HE SHOULD sue them for WILLFUL Defamation…
Interestingly they always admit to lying after the ‘damage’ is done. Clearly a Leftist Tactic they have used many times before.
Accuse your political opponent a horse thief, a rapist, sex offender etc.
None of it has to be True, just accuse them.
The election will be over before they can prove that they are innocent.
Nancy Pelosi admitted an unfortunate truth about her impeachment “farce”
– It hinges on witness’s “allegations” not “proof.
OF course they do so.. BECAUSE ALL TOO often they see when they DO SO, nothing bad happens TO THEM FOR their outright lying before hand.
Several people should lose their shorts in law suits over this. Actual damages could be in the TRILLIONS.
COMMENTSHOULD BE IN THE TRILLIONS
THE ENTIRE PAPER imo should be nuked into oblivion…
While 100% supporter of a FREE PRESS from from pressures of government, I also FULLY SUPPORT ACCOUNTABILITY for those who ‘present’ a KNOWN FALSE NARRATIVE (opinion) as FACTUAL NEWS.
License and regulate the REPORTERS and the PRESENTERS the same as every other profession!
Opinion shows/narrative would be REQUIRED TO CLEARLY AND OPENLY carry a scrolling bar of NOT LESS THAN 25% of the screen stating the show is OPINION ONLY AND NOT FACTUAL.
Reporters and presenters would be under strict requirements UNDER OATH to maintain a VERY CLOSE RELATIONSHIP TO FACTUAL REPORTING devoid of personal opinion!
HARSH PENALTIES for both sides of that fence!
WHAT free press?? For decades, we’ve NEVER HAD a free press.. THEY’ve been nothing but demon-rat hack propaganda outlets ,TOTALLY AND UTTERLY unworthy of even being called the press, LET ALONE THE FREE press.
So the leftist MSM now admits to Fake news
which means Georgia has a Fake GOP Governor working for Chinese interests
a fake GOP Secretary of state Rafrfensberger working for Chinese interests
and a Fake AG pursuing charges against the president for Chinese interests
all of them over this faked phone recording call which they released t the media in Breach of
a court enforceable nondisclosure agreement.
So if the Governor of Georgia deliberately violates a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) so as to slander president by releasing an edited forged recording of a confidential phone call – How much does that cost the Tax Payers of Georgia? Why should they be on the Hook?
The “source” of this crapola was Jordan Fuchs, a Georgia deputy assistant secretary of state. WaPo outed her…. they had no choice. It was either throw her under the bus, or say that they actually didn’t have a source.
And we all know nothing will happen to either Fuchs or WaPo for pushing these lies that wrecked people’s lives. It’s just infuriating.
Makes you wonder, WHY EVEN have judges, and law makers, WHEN ALL TOO DAMN OFTEN those MOST guilty of breaking the law, ARE THOSE lawmakers, and the judges REFUSE TO A DAMN thing about it.
Two classic understatements:
The devil is not nice.
The MSM is dishonest. That’s why it’s called the Fake News.