Trump Team Denies Report On National Guard, Then Admits It Was Based On A Real Document

[riversedge]

MEDIA 02/17/2017 03:29 pm ET | Updated 17 hours ago




Trump Team Denies Report On National Guard, Then Admits It Was Based On A Real Document

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-administration-associated-press-national-guard_us_58a73fa6e4b045cd34c15611?




The leak was real, but the reporting on it was “false,” according to the administration.








By Michael Calderon

President Donald Trump’s administration labeled The Associated Press’s reporting on a leak “100 percent false” on Friday morning, only to acknowledge less than an hour later that the story was based on a real document.

The administration’s response mimicked Trump’s remark a day earlier that even if leaks coming out of the government are “real,” the news is “fake.” And it also fit into what appears to be a pattern of ignoring reporters’ requests for comment, only to push back quickly after stories are published.
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The White House and Department of Homeland Security failed to respond to the AP’s requests for comment prior to publication, the news organization noted. But immediately after the AP published its explosive story, the White House and DHS denied it.....................................................................................
“Not true,” Michael Short, a senior assistant to White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, tweeted at 10:26 a.m. A DHS spokeswoman said it was “not true” 10 minutes later. .................................

[dalton99a]

1. Same old technique.

[Achilleaze]

2. Why do republicans hate Jesus and the Bible?

republican lies about lies are also lies.