{"id":1560207,"date":"2022-07-19T04:19:21","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T08:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1560207"},"modified":"2022-07-19T04:19:23","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T08:19:23","slug":"trump-criticizes-pulitzer-for-rejecting-call-to-revoke-awards-to-nyt-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-criticizes-pulitzer-for-rejecting-call-to-revoke-awards-to-nyt-washington-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Criticizes Pulitzer for Rejecting Call to Revoke Awards to NYT, Washington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-criticizes-pulitzer-for-rejecting-call-to-revoke-awards-to-nyt-washington-post%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1560207&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> criticized the Pulitzer Prize Board on July 18 for refusing to rescind the 2018 awards given to The New York Times and The Washington Post for their coverage of the now-debunked counter-intelligence story of alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Pulitzer Board has taken away any shred of credibility it had left with its \u2018response\u2019 regarding the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, which was awarded to The New York Times and The Washington Post for blatant fake news,\u201d Trump said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TayFromCA\/status\/1549199226864668672\">statement<\/a> released on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead of acting with integrity and providing transparency, the Pulitzer Board is running cover for the biggest reporting failure in modern history: the fake Russia Russia Russia collusion hoax,\u201d Trump added.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, the board <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pulitzer.org\/winners\/staffs-new-york-times-and-washington-post\">handed<\/a> the two outlets its National Reporting prizes for \u201cdeeply sourced, relentlessly reported coverage in the public interest that dramatically furthered the nation\u2019s understanding of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump formally asked the board to withdraw the prizes in October 2021, when he sent a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donaldjtrump.com\/news\/news-ctrqtajxua797\">letter<\/a> to Bud Kliment, who was then-interim administrator of the awards. In his letter, Trump said the coverage was based on \u201cfalse reporting of a non-existent link between the Kremlin and the Trump Campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former president pointed to the indictment of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-michael-sussmann\">Michael Sussmann<\/a>, the former attorney for Hilary Clinton\u2019s 2016 presidential campaign, who was charged last year with making false statements to the FBI.<\/p>\n<p>In May, Trump sent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/trump-threatens-to-sue-pulitzer-committee-for-awarding-russian-collusion-coverage_4506345.html?utm_source=ai&#038;utm_medium=search\">another letter<\/a> to the board, asking its administrator Marjorie Miller to rescind the prizes. If not, Trump wrote that \u201cwe will see you in court.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On July 18, the Pulitzer Prize Board said it found no reason to withdraw the prizes following two independent reviews, after inquiries from those including Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe separate reviews converged<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump criticized the Pulitzer Prize Board on July 18 for refusing to rescind the 2018 awards given to The New York Times and The Washington Post for their coverage of the now-debunked counter-intelligence story of alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. \u201cThe Pulitzer Board has taken away any shred of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1560207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1560207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1560207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1560207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1560207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}