{"id":56362,"date":"2021-03-16T18:30:19","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T22:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=56362"},"modified":"2021-03-16T18:38:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T22:38:56","slug":"wapo-admits-fake-news-hoax-about-trump-pressuring-ga-election-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=56362","title":{"rendered":"WaPo Admits Fake News Hoax About Trump Pressuring GA Election Official"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Trump chastises WaPo for \u2018hoax\u2019 report after paper corrects story alleging ex-president pressured Georgia election official<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><div id=\"attachment_56363\" style=\"width: 990px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56363\" class=\"wp-image-56363 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/60507f4a85f5403d9a72d465.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/60507f4a85f5403d9a72d465.jpg 980w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/60507f4a85f5403d9a72d465-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/60507f4a85f5403d9a72d465-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-56363\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida, US February 28, 2021. \u00a9 REUTERS\/Octavio Jones<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>RT.com<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump has hit back at the Washington Post after it corrected an article claiming that the former US president tried to strongarm a Georgia official, criticizing the report as an example of biased journalism.<\/p>\n<p>The now-discredited story, published in January, alleged that Trump had instructed the state\u2019s top elections investigator to \u201cfind the fraud\u201d that led to Democrat Joe Biden\u2019s election victory, and that she would be a\u00a0<em>\u201cnational hero\u201d<\/em>\u00a0if she did. But on Monday, the paper issued a lengthy correction after an audio recording of the conversation showed that Trump said no such things. The Post admitted that it had\u00a0<em>\u201cmisquoted\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Trump based on\u00a0<em>\u201cinformation provided by a source.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Responding to WaPo\u2019s correction, Trump said that, while he \u201cappreciated\u201d that the error had been fixed, the story had been a\u00a0<em>\u201choax\u201d<\/em>\u00a0from the start.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=RT_com&amp;dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1371582423293657090&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rt.com%2Fusa%2F518222-trump-washington-post-response-correction%2F&amp;siteScreenName=RT_com&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=e1ffbdb%3A1614796141937&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1371582423293657090\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>\u201cA strong democracy requires a fair and honest press. This latest media travesty underscores that legacy media outlets should be regarded as political entities\u2013not journalistic enterprises,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0the former US president said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>He further claimed that\u00a0<em>\u201cerrors, omissions, mistakes and outright lies\u201d<\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0<em>\u201cestablishment media\u201d<\/em>\u00a0always target himself and other Republicans, while stories that are damaging to Democrats are\u00a0<em>\u201cburied\u201d<\/em>\u00a0or delayed until they are deemed harmless.<\/p>\n<p>Doubling down on accusations that he made after the November election, Trump added that he believed that a\u00a0<em>\u201cstrong investigation\u201d<\/em>\u00a0into alleged voting irregularities in Fulton County, Georgia would\u00a0<em>\u201ctotally change the course of the presidential election\u201d<\/em>\u00a0in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Although Trump and his allies have insisted that the presidential contest was rife with fraud, the allegations have not held up well in court, with numerous cases being dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/518222-trump-washington-post-response-correction\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/518222-trump-washington-post-response-correction\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump chastises WaPo for \u2018hoax\u2019 report after paper corrects story alleging ex-president pressured Georgia election official<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}