Posted on 10/14/2018 3:41:20 PM PDT by mandaladon
NBC Issues Correction Two Days After Falsely Claiming Trump Called Gen. Robert E. Lee ‘Incredible’
On Friday, NBC News reported, and tweeted, that President Donald Trump praised Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee as “incredible”. But on Sunday, NBC had to correct that tweet since, as it turns out, Trump was actually praising Union General (and future U.S. President) Ulysses S. Grant in the clip.
“An earlier tweet misidentified the general President Trump described as ‘incredible’ at a rally in Ohio,” they tweeted. “It was Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, not Gen. Robert E. Lee.”
That’s a pretty big difference.
That was the tweet on Friday. The correction came as a reply to that tweet on Sunday.
CORRECTION: An earlier tweet misidentified the general President Trump described as “incredible” at a rally in Ohio. It was Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, not Gen. Robert E. Lee. An attached video clip lacked the full context for Trump’s remark. Here is the full clip. pic.twitter.com/NZHj3Q2dHL
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 14, 2018
The story, which rocketed across the web, claimed that Trump was saying Robert E. Lee was the “great general” who “drank too much” but was “incredible’. In reality, as one can tell by watching the full clip, those remarks were directed to General Grant.
Trump said the state of Ohio gave the country a “general who was incredible. “He drank a little bit too much,” said Trump. “You know who I’m talking about right?”
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I understand....as Antietam is personal for me.Sincerely, Dan Morgan should be more widely known. He was a master tactician.
Now I’m certain you’re a Damn Yankee! Your childishness is matched by your language. BTW, brush up on your grammar.
Wish you success in your writing endeavor.
Thank you very much.
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