The Washington Post’s Fake Trump Quote Scandal Is a Lot Worse Than You Think

“…The media conspiracy against Trump became a lot more serious on Monday when the Washington Post retracted its January story claiming that President Donald Trump had pressured Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find the fraud” in the 2020 election and said that he’d be a “national hero” if he did.

A recording of the call definitively proved that the quotes cited by the Washington Post, and then parroted by other outlets, were never actually said by the president at all.

But, as Becket Adams explains at the Washington Examiner, “the Washington Post’s dud of a ‘bombshell’ isn’t even the most scandalous thing about this episode in media malfeasance.”

The most scandalous thing, Adams, argues, is that several different newsrooms “claimed they independently ‘confirmed’ the original ‘scoop’ with anonymous sources of their own.”

NBC News reported it “confirmed The Post’s characterization of the Dec. 23 call through a source familiar with the conversation.”

USA Today claimed a “Georgia official speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters confirmed the details of the call.”

ABC News reported: “President Donald Trump phoned a chief investigator in Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office asking the official to ‘find the fraud’ and telling this person they would be a ‘national hero’ for it, an individual familiar with the matter confirmed to ABC News.”

PBS NewsHour and CNN likewise appeared to claim they independently “confirmed” the story through their own anonymous sources.

The Washington Post claimed its quotes were confirmed by an anonymous source, and at least five major news outlets claimed to independently confirm that Trump said things he never said. “The most likely scenario is ABC, the Washington Post, and others talked to the same person or group,” theorizes Adams. “It’s either that or a bunch of people managed somehow to be wrong about a very specific claim, which is highly unlikely.”…”

Related:

https://twitter.com/SharylAttkisson/status/1371570608241324038

There are a few good journalists left.

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Now Washington Post has revised/corrected the story. Has anyone asked the House Managers if this impeachment charge remains (in their view) correct?
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— Seth Barrett Tillman (@SethBTillman) March 16, 2021

Hat tip to Kane

Chuck Todd blames Trump for Cuomo refusing to quit

America’s first Reparations experiment crashes and burns as recipients demand more cash

It’s time for Red States to copy Blue States and start nullifying federal laws

You remember what happened in the 1860’s?

Democrats begin process of stealing Congressional seat from Iowa Republican who won by 6 votes

Right across the street 15 feet away is a massive homeless camp with people doing drugs out in the open.

Our tax dollars at work. Citizens kept away from the Capitol using military force as homeless people overrun the neighborhoods doing drugs. pic.twitter.com/ncevTInvbz

— David Hookstead (@dhookstead) March 13, 2021

Hat tip to Glenn Reynolds

Couldn’t resist !! Hey Andrewwwwwwwww @NYGovCuomo pic.twitter.com/Nyc2re7eFM

— Tina40 (@RealTina40) March 13, 2021

NBC: Wear A Mask While Exercising And Showering. Maybe Even Two

Capitalizing on people’s fear and impulse to control others, NBC offers suggestions that take absurd CDC guidelines and crank them up to a zany extreme.

I know firsthand of the self-appointed mask police who wander our neighborhood looking for mask scofflaws. I know also of the terminal CNN/MSNBC watchers who vigorously adjust their masks and body coverings as an unmasked person approaches. They are scared to death that Covid is hiding behind a tree or falling out of the sky like rain. If they speak to me about my unmasked appearance, I send them on their way with something like a flea in their ear.

These people are like East Germans or Russians reporting their neighbors to the Stasi. This is America, I have no patience for these weak-minded fools.

UF spends 38k on ‘anti-racist’ training that discourages ‘All Lives Matter’

• • Students at the University of Florida are being asked to complete a new diversity training.
  • While a university official told Campus Reform that the training is not a requirement for students to complete, an email sent to students does list a due date to complete it.
  • The new diversity training cost the university $38,000 to implement.

Syracuse U hosts fired CNN commentator accused of antisemitism for talk on racism

• • Syracuse University to include fired CNN contributor Marc Lamont Hill in a virtual talk on Black voter suppression
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Emails show scientists scrubbed early warning of potential lab origin of COVID-19

Biden declines to comment on whether Cuomo should resign, suggests waiting for probe findings

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RIP to Marvin Hagler

What a difference in approaches…everything open in FL, Gov. DeSantis overturns all COVID-19 fines vs businesses, while here in LA County, we are revoking permits, operating licenses, and cutting electricity to businesses that kept their outdoor dining open during the LA ban. https://t.co/MbT5ui95hk

— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) March 13, 2021

The county and City are harassing this restaurant owner even as draconian shutdowns are being lifted.

Effective Monday, March 15 at 12:01 AM, the following sectors can reopen in LA County with public health measures in place. (2/4) pic.twitter.com/FrgJQ7ehDp

— Los Angeles County (@CountyofLA) March 12, 2021

I tell the truth. There is no video evidence showing indoor dining when it wasn't allowed. You are empowering a tyrannical leftist government because you are a cowardly pussy. You don't seem to know the difference between your ass and a hole in the ground.

— Nick Searcy, RESURRECTIONAL FILM & TELEVISION STAR (@yesnicksearcy) February 28, 2021

Stop the United Karens of Burbank from Destroying @tinhornFlats @BurbankCA

Tinhorn Flats Legal Defense Fund https://t.co/yYy0qzImyf

— Nick Searcy, RESURRECTIONAL FILM & TELEVISION STAR (@yesnicksearcy) March 9, 2021

Ivy League University Offers Separate Graduation Ceremonies According to Race, Sexual Identity, and Income

Kentucky’s Berea College Hosts Event Calling ‘Trumpism’ a Form of Terrorism