Trump falsely accuses the New York Times of making up a source. It was an official who briefed repor [View all]
Source: Washington Post
Trump falsely accuses the New York Times of making up a source. It was an official who briefed reporters.
By Seung Min Kim
May 26 at 7:29 PM
President Trump on Saturday falsely accused the New York Times of using an unnamed source “who doesn’t exist” in a story on negotiations between the United States and North Korea, but the official cited spoke to reporters Thursday in a briefing arranged by the White House.
“The Failing @nytimes quotes ‘a senior White House official,’ who doesn’t exist, as saying ‘even if the meeting were reinstated, holding it on June 12 would be impossible, given the lack of time and the amount of planning needed,’” Trump tweeted Saturday morning. “WRONG AGAIN! Use real people, not phony sources.”
The senior White House official cited by the Times spoke to dozens of reporters Thursday at the White House and on a conference call to brief them on Trump’s decision earlier that day to cancel his June 12 summit in Singapore with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
The Washington Post, which participated in the briefing, agreed to the rules as laid out by White House press officials at the time, which were to refer to the briefer as a senior White House official. The Post also used information from that briefing in subsequent stories and continues to abide by the agreed upon ground rules.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-falsely-accuses-the-new-york-times-of-making-up-a-source-it-was-an-official-who-briefed-reporters/2018/05/26/2d055a60-612c-11e8-8c93-8cf33c21da8d_story.html
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