Washington Post reporter apologizes for tweet on crowd size at Trump rally
Washington Post reporter Dave Weigel issued an apology to President Trump on Saturday for tweeting a photo of an empty arena before a Trump rally in Florida that had been taken hours before the event started.
Weigel responded minutes after a tweet from Trump, who said he had "put out a phony photo of an empty arena hours before I arrived."
Weigel said he took the tweet down after Daily Mail political editor David Martosko told him he had gotten it wrong.
"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," he tweeted.
Trump's attack and Weigel's subsequent apology come less than 24 hours after Trump ripped CNN and ABC for putting out incorrect reporting that they later apologized for.
Trump referred to ABC News correspondent Brian Ross as a "fraudster" at the rally, a week after Ross falsely reported that former national security adviser Michael Flynn had directed Trump to contact Russian officials during the campaign.
ABC later corrected the report to say that the president directed Flynn to contact Russia after he was elected.
"They took this fraudster from ABC, they suspended for a month. They should have fired him for what he wrote. He drove the stock market down 350 points in minutes," the president said Friday. "I said to everybody, get yourself a lawyer and sue ABC News."
Trump also took aim at CNN after the network was forced to make a correction on Friday regarding documents Donald Trump Jr. received from WikiLeaks.
"Oh thank you, CNN, thank you so much. You should have been apologizing for the last two years," Trump said to laughter and cheers in the audience.
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"apology" a little late and slightly coerced
Washington Post employee putting out wrong information about the President? That's impossible!!!!! They are a highly respectable company.
They are liars. It will come back to bite them in the ass!
Reminds me of the stands at Trump’s Inauguration Day parade.
5 in the a.m. doesn't work!
Try pm. I was watching it live, as were you no doubt.
Actually, I only watched a little. The swearing in and a little of the walk down PA Avenue.
I was in Florida at the time. I recall two elderly people sitting at poolside. (I assume a man and his wife). They had it on the radio. The woman had a bitter look on her face. I heard the man say "Lisa, I told you this could happen". All I could do was laugh.
Did you think in your wildest dreams that Donald Trump could win this election? I didn't.
Nope. I remember I was on Newsvine, early in the primaries, I told people I was a Rubio man, but if I thought Trump could win I would rather have him. It was a tremendous upset.
It was a phenomena! There has to be a reason why this happened. All of Hillary's excuses don't matter. It is unquestionably an event that boggles the mind.
It is a phenomenon. One of the real turning points in our history. I think the biggest reason for it was the contempt progressives have shown for blue collar workers, especially the working poor. Hillary calling them "deplorables" and Obama calling them "clingers". The use of identity politics, wage stagnation and the loss of the manufacturing sector all played a part. It is still very interesting on where it goes from here: Do they get Trump with something? Does the tax/economic plan get passed and grow the economy? That would be big for Trump. What about the old establishment? They will never be the same. Just think we can actually have someone fired for not doing their job at the VA!
This didn't happen without a reason. Oh, I get very frustrated with Pres. Trump over his twittering. Because it is not business, as usual. But, nothing Is usual with this.
He does hurt himself with that, but he feels he needs to talk directly to the people because the media will never give him an inch. He has more supporters than we know. We learned that from the election polling - they don't like to admit they are Trump voters
Media misinformation is highly effective to all of us. When the media was telling everyone Hillary had a 90% chance of winning on the day of the election, it's pretty hard to remove onesself from all that propaganda disrupting what we believe to be reality. After a year of it, one has great difficulty in believing otherwise, even the strongest individual minds are affected by it.
You saw how it affected those who were the true believers. I believe some of them actually had nervous breakdowns, not so much that Trump won, but like any other Moonie, the sudden shock of having their reality torn apart is devastating. Many are still mentally deranged and probably need extensive mental health care to regain some semblance of sanity.
I use to worry and be critical of his tweeting, but can you imagine if he never tweeted, how much leverage that would give the MSM to dump on him like they did Bush. I never cared for Bush, but there were many times I wished he would stand up for himself. They had their way with Bush, but at least Trump realizes that and stands up for himself. If he didn't how would we compete with the MSM running all over us as well?
I LOVE IT! And there are a few on here who need a time out;.
It was Hillary all the way. The pants suit lady! Damn, I hated those pants suits! She and Merkel were twins!
Those could be the stands at Obama's going away festival.
Doubt it.
What's that? Attendance at the "scream at the sky" rally?
That was hilarious!
LOL!!!
Every pro Trump rally is that.
Maybe the tailgate party.
It's been quite a week for the MSM
Yawwwwnnnnn. How boring.
And yet, here you are.
Try another article or have a cocktail.
As you can see, I have friends here
Yay for you.
How ridiculous to see Trump complaining about someone misrepresenting something. This man's entire public life consists of him misrepresenting the truth about one thing or another.
His fans badly lack self awareness about this also.
So he should have accepted it - like a John McCain would have?
I don't care what he does with it. He's not qualified to be president of the United States and needs to be driven from office. This other stuff is a side show.
It dosen't work that way. We suffered through 8 years of leftist overreach, now you have to man up
Donald Trump is the most unqualified president in the 240 year history of the country. He is an ignoramus on policy, an unethical pathological liar, and a buffoon. He treats our great country as if it was a reality tv show set.
I am fairly confident he will be forced from office before his 4 years are up, but if not we will vote him out in 2020. Hopefully, he loses at least one chamber of Congress next year so this fool can be prevented from signing any more legislation his last 2 years.
Yes, in his first year he destroyed ISIS, he has tripled the GDP of any year that Obama was in office, and, ding ding ding.. He has saved me up to 3k on my tax bill!!! I wish Obama well, down there in Kenya where he belongs!
Then you better hope his tax/economic plan dosen't get passed. He has already got the economy growing by getting rid of Obama regulation. If wages & revenue surge - He will be around for 8 years and a Republican congress too
Wrong.....as usual. According to the Constitution, a document you libs look at as toilet paper, the only requirements to be President is to be at least 35 years old and a natural born citizen. Trump is EQUALLY qualified as abuela to be President.
Yeah right like that will happen.
Come on, Mr. Russell. Not that bad!
Many are suffering from PTSD or Post Trump Stress Disorder.
What they are suffering from is TARD (Trump Acceptance Resistance Disorder).
As I've said before, although 50 or 60 years ago you could believe what you read or heard from the media, these days the advice is don't believe anything you read or hear, and only half of what you actually witness with your own eyes. (Before photoshopping was invented, I used to say "...and only half of what you see.")
But you can believe everything in this article Buzz, because we've seen it, heard it and they've retracted their Fake News. Just think how many lies they would have gotten away with if we didn't have someone to expose them.
I'm more concerned about how many lies that have NOT been caught.
Oh you know there are many. Anyway, I know you are happy about Jerusalem. I felt he would do what he said he would do. In time, he'll try his best to do everything he said he would do if at all possible. That's unlike any politician in modern history!!!!
Yes, I AM happy about the Jerusalem announcement. It may cause a lot of problems at first, but I'm sure it will turn into a much better situation than existed for so many years. He may have small hands, but he's got the balls his more immediate predecessors didn't have.
Yes and Yes! He does have the balls and I am so proud of our President.