WaPo Hits Back: Report Trump Called 'Fake' Led To Flynn's Ouster
Source: Talking Points Memo
By MATT SHUHAM Published FEBRUARY 24, 2017, 1:10 PM EDT
The executive editor of the Washington Post on Friday dismissed President Donald Trump’s apparent allegation that the paper had "made up" sources while reporting on the White House.
In a statement to the Post's Erik Wemple, executive editor Marty Baron referred to the newspaper's report that led to the ouster of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, who discussed sanctions on the phone with Russia’s ambassador to the United States before Trump was inaugurated. Flynn was fired after it came to light that he misrepresented the nature of that call to the vice president.
“Everything we published regarding Gen. Flynn was true, as confirmed by subsequent events and on-the-record statements from administration officials themselves,” Baron told Wemple. “The story led directly to the general’s dismissal as national security adviser. Calling press reports fake doesn’t make them so.”
The Post's story cited nine unnamed “current and former officials, who were in senior positions at multiple agencies at the time of the calls.”
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Clearly, another attempt to obfuscate the underlying info.
Yeah, the boy shouldn't have told a lie to his daddy, but he gets in trouble for that and walks for treason.
