The Washington Post‘s Dave Weigel was busted when his tweet of a nearly empty arena that he claimed was the crowd at President Trump’s rally in Pensacola, Florida on Friday got called out as bullshit by the president himself.
.@DaveWeigel @WashingtonPost put out a phony photo of an empty arena hours before I arrived @ the venue, w/ thousands of people outside, on their way in. Real photos now shown as I spoke. Packed house, many people unable to get in. Demand apology & retraction from FAKE NEWS WaPo! http://pic.twitter.com/XAblFGh1ob
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 9, 2017
Weigel owned up to his dishonesty, deleted his tweet and apologized:
Sure thing: I apologize. I deleted the photo after @dmartosko told me I’d gotten it wrong. Was confused by the image of you walking in the bottom right corner. https://t.co/fQY7GMNSaD
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) December 9, 2017
But he wasn’t going to get off the hook so easily because the POTUS having been the subject of multiple fake news stories this week including CNN’s nothing-whopper with cheese reporting an email giving advance notice to WikiLeaks materials to Donald Trump Jr. which was debunked when it was reported that the crackerjack staff at CNN had the wrong date on the email.
Trump called for Weigel’s firing:
.@daveweigel of the Washington Post just admitted that his picture was a FAKE (fraud?) showing an almost empty arena last night for my speech in Pensacola when, in fact, he knew the arena was packed (as shown also on T.V.). FAKE NEWS, he should be fired.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 9, 2017
The WAPO will never fire a fake news “reporter” because that is their top product, just as CNN is not holding anyone accountable for their Friday fiasco.
Weigel played it off by saying that the tweet was from his own personal account and not an official Washington Post story and maybe that is true but it exposes the exact type of biased liberal hacks that the paper employs.
Meanwhile, other fake newsers flew to Weigel’s rescue:
By including Dave Weigel’s @ handle, the president’s statement is inviting followers to gang up on a reporter https://t.co/3C5jKDvFP5
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) December 9, 2017
And apologized as Trump demanded. And then Trump said that’s not enough. Almost feels like wanting the apology wasn’t the point. https://t.co/v3dwtpC8Gr
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) December 9, 2017
The president calling for a journalist to be fired seems like a public threat to the First Amendment. https://t.co/Vx4csNtIP4
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) December 9, 2017
No Mr. Griffin, it is not a public threat to the First Amendment, the Constitution only applies to a free press, not propaganda.
Trump wins again!
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