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Trump: Revoke Pulitzers For ‘False Reporting’ On Russia Hoax
Daily Wire ^ | 10/5/21 | Joseph Curl

Posted on 10/05/2021 9:11:29 PM PDT by Impala64ssa

Former President Donald Trump urged the Pulitzer Prize Board to rescind the 2018 National Reporting awards given to The New York Times and The Washington Post for coverage of alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2020 campaign, saying their stories were based on “false reporting” and a “complete lack of evidence.”

“As has been widely publicized, the coverage was no more than a politically motivated farce which attempted to spin a false narrative that my campaign supposedly colluded with Russia despite a complete lack of evidence underpinning this allegation,” Trump wrote in a letter addressed to Bud Kliment, the interim administrator of the awards, The Washington Examiner reported.

Trump cited an indictment of Michael Sussmann, a lawyer who worked for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, in special counsel John Durham’s investigation. Durham alleges that Sussmann “lied to the FBI about who he was representing when he tipped the agency in September 2016 to a possible link between the Trump campaign and Alfa Bank, which has ties to the Kremlin,” the Examiner wrote.

Trump said the indictment “serves as a damning repudiation of the media’s obsession with the collusion story. The indictment pointedly accuses Mr. Sussman of making false statements to the FBI when he presented ‘evidence’ purporting to show secret communications between my organization and the Russia-based Alfa Bank.”

The former president also said the papers’ stories cited only “‘people with knowledge,’ ‘current and former officials,’ ‘some senior U.S. officials,’ and other vaguely defined individuals.”

I would expect that you will take the necessary steps to rectify the situation, including stripping the recipients of their prize and retracting the false statements which remain on the Pulitzer website,” Trump said. “Without holding the recipients to such a high standard of accountability, the integrity of the Pulitzer Prize namesake stands to be wholly compromised.”

Meanwhile, Trump said in a new interview that he would beat Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis should the two face off in a 2024 primary but added he doesn’t think DeSantis will run against him.

“If I faced him, I’d beat him like I would beat everyone else,” Trump said during an interview with Yahoo Finance Live, set to be released on Monday. But he added, “I think most people would drop out, I think he would drop out.”

A straw poll in July at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) put DeSantis squarely in the running.

When asked who they would vote for in the Republican primary if it were held that day, 70% of respondents said Trump. DeSantis was a distant second at just 21%.

But when asked who they would vote for if Trump wasn’t an option, DeSantis topped the poll at 68%.

DeSantis, who was a vocal supporter of Trump throughout his four years as president, is up for re-election in 2022. On Thursday, he told Fox News’ Sean Hannity that he intends to run for governor again next year and is “not considering anything beyond doing my job.”


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: prestrump; pulitzer; russiarissiarussia
The Pulitzer committee still almost a century later refused to pull Walter Duranty s award, even though the proponderance of evidence shows he was Stalin's butt boi and covered up the Ukrainian famine. They certainly won't have the intellectual honesty to do the right thing over the Russian hoax.
1 posted on 10/05/2021 9:11:29 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
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To: Impala64ssa

Stalin dishonor!


2 posted on 10/05/2021 9:16:34 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: Impala64ssa

These committees are beyond accountability, but if they had any honor left at all they would rescind these fraudulent awards.


3 posted on 10/05/2021 9:18:20 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: hinckley buzzard

Trump should pass the baton. To too many Americans, he’s “damaged goods”.

He’ll be my age if elected, and I’d be overwhelmed.


4 posted on 10/05/2021 10:06:07 PM PDT by Does so (USA is run from 2446 Belmont Rd, NW, DC, (Kalorama). Why else the 9/11 deadline for Afghanistan?)
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Trump should pass the baton. To too many Americans, he’s “damaged goods”.

Nawwww.

That is a media misinformation campaign.

There is no-one, not even DeSantis, that will fight like Trump!

He needs to run again, and if he does, he wins hands down!
5 posted on 10/05/2021 10:28:20 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: Impala64ssa

Then there’s Upton Sinclair who wrote Boston as a defense of Sacco and Vanzetti because, though he knew from their lawyer that they had murdered that guy, he also knew it would sell books in Europe.


6 posted on 10/05/2021 10:28:44 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Does so

You underestimate the sheer value of giving a giant FU to the whole Left.

Indeed, them and the ChiCom wagon they ride on.


7 posted on 10/05/2021 10:30:27 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Does so
Trump should pass the baton. To too many Americans, he’s “damaged goods”.

BS

President Trump just won reelection in an incredible landslide. The FRAUDITS will show it. Arizona is the first domino and it has not yet fallen

When History is done with Nov 3, 2020, President Trump will be headed to Mt. Rushmore for single handily destroying the DimWIT Party. But President Trump did have help, the DimWITS with their vote fraud screwed up so bad that even the dumbest of the dumb will soon see it as the evidence is revealed.

The Arizona Senate presentation a few weeks ago didn't even reveal the biggest DimWIT fraud, that will come later.

The DimWIT's response soon will be to put up some more barbed wire and get National Guard troops to surround them, but it will NOT STOP WHAT IS COMING.

Damaged goods, that's funny.

8 posted on 10/05/2021 11:08:09 PM PDT by politicianslie (There was no cover-up, the election was not stolen. Biden won=NO SANE person could believe this!)
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To: Impala64ssa

And pull BamBam’s peace prize. He bombed more countries than W.


9 posted on 10/06/2021 12:34:13 AM PDT by Veggie Todd (Proudly posting comments without reading the articles since 2002.)
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To: Impala64ssa

This is what he’s focused on.

Whatever.


10 posted on 10/06/2021 5:28:17 AM PDT by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: Impala64ssa

If I get prosecuted I will take half of Washington with me.

Hillary Clinton


11 posted on 10/06/2021 9:07:57 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Impala64ssa

In the immortal words of Dan Rather:”Fake but accurate”.


12 posted on 10/06/2021 3:37:11 PM PDT by 1956tbyrd
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To: politicianslie

As Trump ages, his ability to connect will suffer.

Getting into one’s 80s is fraught with perils.


13 posted on 10/10/2021 6:24:53 AM PDT by Does so (USA is run from 2446 Belmont Rd, NW, DC, (Kalorama). Why else the 9/11 deadline for Afghanistan?)
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