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If I'm understanding this correctly, you're conflating two different phone calls. > The Washington Post recently had to issue a high-profile correction to Janu
by knowaveragejoe 6y ago
If I'm understanding this correctly, you're conflating two different phone calls.
> The Washington Post recently had to issue a high-profile correction to January reporting about one of two known calls in which Donald Trump urged Georgia officials to find evidence to overturn the state’s election results.
> The newspaper initially said Trump told an elections investigator she should “find the fraud” and that she would be a “national hero” if she did so. But a newly surfaced recording of the call shows he didn’t use those words. Instead, he told her to uncover the “dishonesty” and that “when the right answer comes out, you’ll be praised.”
> The Post did not retract its story, as some people on social media claimed. The correction did not involve its Jan. 3 reporting about what Trump told Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger during another phone call. The Post published the full audio and transcript of that call.
https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/mar/16/what-trump-told-georgia-election-officials/ https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/mar/16/what-trump-to...
Anyways, this never rose to the level of the sort of Fake News being pushed by the right-wing grift-o-sphere, and to pretend it's in the same league is ignorant at best. We're literally talking about issuing a retraction, something none of these conservative grifting outlets are known to do when they are routinely shown to be pushing misinformation.