The Washington Post added a lengthy correction to a bomb report from early January that said at the time:President Trump
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Two months after the release of this story, the Georgia Secretary of State released an audio recording of President Donald Trump’s telephone conversation in December with the state’s chief election investigator. misquoted, based on information from one source, ‘the Post said Thursday in a 129-word correction published on top of the story.
Trump did not tell the investigator to ‘track down the fraud’ or say she would be ‘a national hero’ if she did. Instead, Trump urged the investigator to take the ballots in Fulton County, Georgia. , and claimed she would find “dishonesty” “there. He also told her she had” the most important job in the country at the moment. ” ‘
The headline and text of the Post report have been corrected to remove quotes incorrectly attributed to Trump, the paper said.
The correction comes days after The Wall Street Journal received audio from the December conversation between Trump and the investigator.
“If the right answer comes, you will be praised,” Trump said Thursday to Frances Watson, the principal investigator for the Georgia secretary’s office.
Watson reportedly replied, “I can assure you that our team and the [Georgia Bureau of Investigation], that we are only interested in the truth and find the information based on the facts. “
The original Post report shocked the political world just days before the second Jan. 5 election in Georgia, a match that both Republican senators lost, giving Democrats the upper chamber majority.
The original Post report was widely reported by many media outlets, including The Hill, who also updated his report on the Trump call.
During his last weeks in office, Trump repeatedly claimed he lost the election only because of widespread voter fraud and pointed to places like Fulton County, Georgia, as examples of a “fake” election against him.
Election officials in Georgia dismissed those claims after several investigations and audits of the state’s election results in November.