The Washington Post added a lengthy correction to a bomb report in early January that said at the time:President Trump
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“Two months after the publication of this story, the Secretary of State of Georgia released an audio recording of President Donald Trump’s phone call in December with the state’s top election researcher. revealed that The Post erred in Trump’s comments on the call, based on information provided by a source, ”the newspaper said Thursday in a 129-word correction published at the top of the story.
“Trump did not tell the investigator to ‘find the fraud’ nor did he say he would be ‘a national hero’ if he did. Instead, Trump urged the investigator to examine the ballot boxes in Fulton County, in the Republic of Georgia, stating that he would find “dishonesty.” “There. He also told her that he now had “the most important job in the country.”
The headline and text of the Post report have been corrected to remove quotes erroneously attributed to Trump, the newspaper said.
The correction comes days after the Wall Street Journal obtained the audio of the December call between Trump and the investigator.
“When the right answer comes out, they will be praised,” Trump told Frances Watson, the chief investigator in Georgia’s secretary of state’s office, the newspaper reported Thursday.
According to reports, Watson responded: “I can assure you that our team and the [Georgia Bureau of Investigation], that we are only interested in the truth and finding the information that is based on the facts “.
The original Post report shook the political world just days before the Jan. 5 second election in Georgia, a contest the two Republican senators lost, giving Democrats a majority in the upper house.
Many media outlets included the original Post report, including the Hill, which has also updated its report on the Trump call.
During his last weeks in office, Trump has repeatedly stated that he only lost the election because of widespread voter fraud and cited places such as Fulton County, Ga., As examples of elections “called” against him.
Georgia election officials have denied the allegations after conducting several investigations and audits of the November state election results.