President Donald Trump is disputing a quote attributed to him during a newspaper interview about relations with North Korea’s leader.
The Wall Street Journal on Thursday quoted Trump as saying: “I probably have a very good relationship with Kim Jong Un.”
Trump tweeted Sunday: “The Wall Street Journal stated falsely that I said to them ‘I have a good relationship with Kim Jong Un’ (of N. Korea). Obviously I didn’t say that. I said ‘I’d have a good relationship with Kim Jong Un,’ a big difference. Fortunately we now record conversations with reporters and they knew exactly what I said and meant. They just wanted a story. FAKE NEWS!”
The Wall Street Journal stated falsely that I said to them “I have a good relationship with Kim Jong Un” (of N. Korea). Obviously I didn’t say that. I said “I’d have a good relationship with Kim Jong Un,” a big difference. Fortunately we now record conversations with reporters…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 14, 2018
…and they knew exactly what I said and meant. They just wanted a story. FAKE NEWS!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 14, 2018
So much Fake News is being reported. They don’t even try to get it right, or correct it when they are wrong. They promote the Fake Book of a mentally deranged author, who knowingly writes false information. The Mainstream Media is crazed that WE won the election!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 13, 2018
White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders and the newspaper have released separate audio clips.
The Wall Street Journal says it stands by its reporting.
— Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) January 13, 2018
Here is the official audio showing WSJ misquoting @POTUS pic.twitter.com/wVwoafYkHg
— Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) January 14, 2018
We first contacted the WSJ Friday morning and asked for a correction. They repeatedly refused to issue one despite clear audio evidence they’d misquoted POTUS. https://t.co/yauftW3qDQ
— Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) January 14, 2018
listening to @yashar’s slowed-down version of Trump’s WSJ interview it does sound like he said I’d, not I.
— Sam Stein (@samstein) January 14, 2018
(AP)
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4 Responses
Listen to the Audio, he totally said I’d!
This is so FAKE FONNY!!!!
Everyone there knew what he was saying and yet they made up a stupid story about it!!!
The media has totally lost any integrity it had left!
…and yet the tech companies like Google, etc. define fake news as conspiracy theories, such as a website about the moon landing being fake and so forth. I don’t know what’s so hard to understand for them.
I heard “I”, not “I’d”. And if the president said “I’d”, then he failed to complete his sentence. If he intended to say he “would” have a good relationship with Kim Jung-un”, he would have added something at the end, e.g., “I’d have a good relationship with Kim Jung-un if we could have a candid discussion about chocolate cake.”
This is the M.O. of the left: repeat a lie many times till people believe it, and then try to make Trump look like a fool when he denies it. Fortunately people are not that stupid and are starting to see through this wall of lies.