Posted on 12/09/2017 6:41:50 PM PST by Hojczyk
President Donald Trump slammed Washington Post politics reporter (and former Journolist) Dave Weigel for posting a photo mocking Trump for the size of the crowd at his rally Friday night in Pensacola, Florida that was actually taken well before Trump entered the venue. Weigel mockingly quoting Trump’s tweet about the rally, “Packed to the rafters”.
As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier Saturday, liberals online, including the site Raw Story, were spreading a photo of the rally taken well before Trump took the stage at the Pensacola Bay Center that showed many empty sections of seats. It was falsely claimed that Trump could be seen entering the rally in the photo. Several reporters took to Twitter to debunk the false claims, posting photos and videos from the rally while Trump was actually on stage.
Weigel replied to Trump–but was still surly–accusing Trump of lying about the photo. “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.”
Weigel later laughed off a critic, “It was a bad tweet on my personal account, not a story for Washington Post. I deleted it after like 20 minutes. Very fair to call me out. Everything I say on Twitter is a joke, except what I say about @swin24.”
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This man fights.
For eight years George W Bush let the leftist media run all over him, calling him every name in the book, he did NOTHING to stop them..here comes President Trump, who has the balls to say NO MORE and FIGHTS BACK against these punks and the media just can’t stand i t
Maybe a couple weeks off without pay but I don’t know that he should lose his job over this. He apologized, explained how he made the mistake, and corrected it. Acosta is the one I want to see fired.
Giving aid and comfort to our enemy. Yes. He should be fired. Along with all the other comrades in the media.
Exactly.
Was that picture even taken on the day of the event???
And CNN is the same network that the day before the inauguration called for Trump and Pence’s assassination..I bet President Trump saw that broadcast as well..why should Trump show ANY respect for people who have called for his murder
Hey, if they fired every lying liberal “reporter”, there’s be no more.....
Oh wait, O.K. Let’s get the ball rolling....
If you count back to Reagan, we’re approaching 3 decades of the media having it their way with White House reporting. No wonder they think they can run roughshod over POTUS.
Now they learn that people will call them out on their traitorous ways on social media, otherwise nothing would have changed.
They can’t fire every lyin’ lib reporter.... who would be left to “report” their “news”????
I put these propagandists on the same level as Iran, N Kores, ISIS and registered Democrats...
I think he should be fired as he clearly has no journalistic integrity. Millions of us saw the rally on TV or streaming media and so we know that stadium was packed to the rafters.
I’d say the current oppositional press began by taking down the Goldwater campaign. Nixon self destructed and you couldn’t attack a legitimate hero like Ike other than that he played too much golf. Since then the media has been partisan and unreliable. The truth was only reported when it benefited the progressive.
Same stunt the Post and NYT pulled during the inauguration.
Ulterior motive for the initial post? The media is out of control. Accountability is nil.
I don’t know. I think before the President arrived maybe. Probably 50,000 people lined up waiting to get in.
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