{"id":228750,"date":"2021-03-16T10:30:34","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T14:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=228750"},"modified":"2021-03-16T10:30:42","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T14:30:42","slug":"they-made-up-quotes-wapo-ripped-for-reporting-fraudulent-trump-quotes-on-call-with-ga-investigator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/they-made-up-quotes-wapo-ripped-for-reporting-fraudulent-trump-quotes-on-call-with-ga-investigator\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They Made Up Quotes\u2019: WaPo Ripped For Reporting Fraudulent Trump Quotes On Call With GA Investigator"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/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%2Fthey-made-up-quotes-wapo-ripped-for-reporting-fraudulent-trump-quotes-on-call-with-ga-investigator%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=228750&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1174.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Washington Post received a flood of criticism after correcting a story in which the outlet \u201cmisquoted\u201d former President Donald Trump\u2019s December phone call with the Georgia Secretary of State\u2019s top investigator.<\/p>\n<p>The Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/news-outlets-issue-major-corrections-after-botching-reports-on-december-phone-call-between-trump-ga-election-investigator\">attributed fraudulent quotes<\/a> to Trump based off a single anonymous source familiar with the Dec. 23 phone call. The newspaper published the fake quotes in a January article playing up the president\u2019s alleged efforts to interfere in Georgia\u2019s presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper corrected its story on Thursday and issued a lengthy editor\u2019s note to the top of the article after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/recording-of-trump-phone-call-to-georgia-lead-investigator-reveals-new-details-11615411561\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a> published audio of the phone call last week. The Post said it \u201cmisattributed\u201d quotes of Trump ordering the investigator to \u201cfind the fraud\u201d and claiming the investigator would be a \u201cnational hero.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis kind of mistake is beyond serious. There\u2019s zero accountability in major corporate media anymore, yet they continually insist they\u2019re the ones holding the line on the truth. And always remember what should scare you about the media is what *doesn\u2019t get exposed,\u201d RealClearInvestigations senior writer Mark Hemingway <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Heminator\/status\/1371507834630901762\">said<\/a>. \u201cAlso note headline on the Post\u2019s follow-up story is a sort of maliciously anodyne \u2018Recording reveals details of Trump call to Georgia\u2019s chief elections investigator.\u2019 It\u2019s not \u2018Trump\u2019s Remarks Grossly Misrepresented Across Media, Because We Credulously Fall For Political Ops.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CNN conservative commentator Mary Katherine Ham suggested that the Post\u2019s mistake should cost someone his job.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, they made up quotes. What in the actual F,\u201d Ham <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mkhammer\/status\/1371510649298288642\">tweeted<\/a>. \u201cThe header for this story could be a little clearer, like \u2018Our Bad, We Made Fake News That Led the National News For Weeks And This Audio Proves It,\u2019\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mkhammer\/status\/1371515467580473344\">added<\/a> with a link to the Post\u2019s story.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor those in my timeline asking me if it really matters bc Trump bad anyway, YES, IT REALLY MATTERS! Quotes being correct matters A LOT. Don\u2019t you see that\u2019s the issue? If a reporter is so dead sure, that \u2018Trump bad anyway,\u2019 he is less inclined to question or vet his own stories.\u201d Ham <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mkhammer\/status\/1371529286042185734\">continued<\/a>. \u201cAnd don\u2019t give me the \u2018corrections are an example of the system working\u2019 stuff. Sometimes they are! Here, they\u2019re coming in 3 mos later when they were outed by a recording &amp; the correction &amp; new story are designed to downplay as much as possible, not blare as loudly as original.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>National Review senior writer David Harsanyi <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidharsanyi\/status\/1371507966172614659\">quipped<\/a>, \u201cI\u2019m sure it was just an accident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is absolutely no way that 20 years ago a newspaper would have gone with a story about a presidential call with so little corroboration. This is just one of dozens of major stories that big outlets got completely wrong. And it\u2019s no mistake that all of them skew in 1 direction,\u201d he added. \u201cTrump gave them license to act like a bunch of unprofessional hysterical activists. And no one will pay a price because they provide their subscribers with exactly the content they want.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Post\u2019s correction posted to the top of its Jan. 9 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/trump-call-georgia-investigator\/2021\/01\/09\/7a55c7fa-51cf-11eb-83e3-322644d82356_story.html\">story<\/a> says:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"12.727832512315\">\n<p><em>Correction: Two months after publication of this story, the Georgia secretary of state released an audio recording of President Donald Trump\u2019s December phone call with the state\u2019s top elections investigator. The recording revealed that The Post misquoted Trump\u2019s comments on the call, based on information provided by a source. Trump did not tell the investigator to \u201cfind the fraud\u201d or say she would be \u201ca national hero\u201d if she did so. Instead, Trump urged the investigator to scrutinize ballots in Fulton County, Ga., asserting she would find \u201cdishonesty\u201d there. He also told her that she had \u201cthe most important job in the country right now.\u201d A story about the recording&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/trump-call-georgia-investigator\/2021\/03\/11\/c532ea2e-827a-11eb-ac37-4383f7709abe_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_2\">can be found here<\/a>. The headline and text of this story have been corrected to remove quotes misattributed to Trump.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/trump-thanks-wapo-for-correcting-latest-media-travesty-blasts-legacy-media-for-acting-like-political-entities\">Trump Thanks WaPo For Correcting \u2018Latest Media Travesty,\u2019 Blasts Legacy Media For Acting Like \u2018Political Entities\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post received a flood of criticism after correcting a story in which the outlet \u201cmisquoted\u201d former President Donald Trump\u2019s December phone call with the Georgia Secretary of State\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2310541,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1174.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018They Made Up Quotes\u2019: WaPo Ripped For Reporting Fraudulent Trump Quotes On Call With GA Investigator","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1174.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018They Made Up Quotes\u2019: WaPo Ripped For Reporting Fraudulent Trump Quotes On Call With GA Investigator","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228750","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2310541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}