{"id":429587,"date":"2021-04-15T21:20:23","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T01:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=429587"},"modified":"2021-04-15T21:20:27","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T01:20:27","slug":"flashback-washington-post-gave-trump-four-pinnochios-for-calling-discredited-russian-bounties-story-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/flashback-washington-post-gave-trump-four-pinnochios-for-calling-discredited-russian-bounties-story-fake-news\/","title":{"rendered":"FLASHBACK: Washington Post Gave Trump Four Pinnochios For Calling Discredited Russian Bounties Story \u2018Fake News\u2019"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fflashback-washington-post-gave-trump-four-pinnochios-for-calling-discredited-russian-bounties-story-fake-news%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=429587&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\/04\/fb_image-2132.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Washington Post gave former President Donald Trump \u201cfour Pinnochios\u201d last July for dismissing allegations of Russia offering bounties to kill U.S. soldiers stationed in Afghanistan as \u201cfake news.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fact-checking Trump\u2019s interview with reporter Jonathan Swann of Axios, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2020\/07\/30\/trumps-four-pinocchio-interview-russian-bounties\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Washington Post<\/a> wrote on Jul. 30 that Trump \u201chas been dismissive of U.S. intelligence reports that Russia offered bounties to the Taliban to kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fact-checker Salvador Rizzo gave Trump a rating of four Pinnochios for rejecting the charges as \u201cfake news\u201d and a \u201choax,\u201d and accused him of trying to \u201cput the cat back in the bag.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump clarified to Axios why he didn\u2019t bring up the alleged bounties during his phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, that was a phone call to discuss other things, and frankly, that\u2019s an issue that many people said was fake news,\u201d Trump said at the time, stressing that \u201cintelligence\u201d did not think the allegations were \u201creal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>New reports suggest Trump may have been correct.<\/p>\n<p>Evidence fails to support claims that Russia paid the Taliban to kill American troops stationed in Afghanistan, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/04\/15\/us\/politics\/biden-russian-bounties.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Times<\/a>, which originally broke the story last summer.<\/p>\n<p>Citing officials briefed on the matter, the publication reported on Thursday that the intelligence community is split on the validity of the charges.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"8.8787878787879\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">One of the NYT reporters who originally broke the Russia bounty story (originally attributed to unnamed \u201cintelligence officials\u201d) say today that it was a CIA claim. So media outlets \u2013 again \u2013 repeated CIA stories with no questioning: congrats to all.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4GbUXBCOpI\">https:\/\/t.co\/4GbUXBCOpI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ggreenwald\/status\/1382793565714153472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>During the 2020 campaign, then-candidate Joe Biden repeatedly attacked Trump for failing to bring up the issue during his conversation with Putin. The Democrat mentioned the bounties in his speech accepting the Democratic nomination and reportedly discussed the matter in his first phone call with Putin. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/15\/psaki-biden-russia-bounty-donald-trump-apology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Psaki Offers No Apology For Biden\u2019s Attacks On Trump Over Discredited Russian Bounty Report)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration on Thursday imposed new sanctions against Moscow over alleged interference in the 2020 election, but stopped short of sanctioning Russian officials over the suspected bounties.<\/p>\n<p>The sanctions, a senior administration official told the NYT, put \u201ca burden on the Russian government to explain its actions, and take steps to address this disturbing pattern of behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post gave former President Donald Trump \u201cfour Pinnochios\u201d last July for dismissing allegations of Russia offering bounties to kill U.S. soldiers stationed in Afghanistan as \u201cfake news.\u201dFact-checking Trump\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312277,"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\/04\/fb_image-2132.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"FLASHBACK: Washington Post Gave Trump Four Pinnochios For Calling Discredited Russian Bounties Story \u2018Fake News\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-2132.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"FLASHBACK: Washington Post Gave Trump Four Pinnochios For Calling Discredited Russian Bounties Story \u2018Fake News\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429587","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=429587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}