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assessment” of the incident contradicted or failed to confirm accounts
as originally reported, including that a particular student was trying
to instigate a conflict.

75. Various dates
Multiple reporters and media outlets have provided false information
and/or quoted incorrect anonymous sources as to the timing of the
release of Special Counsel Mueller’s report on Trump-Russia collusion.
The Washington Post said it would be out in summer of 2018. Bloomberg
said it would be shortly after the 2018 Midterm elections. In February
2019, CNN, The Washington Post and NBC reported the report was coming
the last week of February. However, it was not announced at that time.

The release of the Mueller report in April 2019 belies countless news
stories over more than two years. The report does not find collusion
between Trump and Russia President Putin and also concludes there’s no evidence that any American conspired or coordinated with any Russian.
The many who claimed there was hard evidence of collusion in hand proved
to be wrong, yet there is no record of media apologies and corrections
on these points.
Robert Mueller, former FBI Director, Special Counsel investigating
alleged Trump-Russia collusion

76. May 29, 2019
The Wall Street Journal reports the Navy used a “tarp” to cover the name
of the U.S.S. John S. McCain so that President Trump wouldn’t see it on
his recent visit to Yokosuka, Japan. (The late Sen. John McCain
frequently attacked Trump and cast a deciding vote contrary to McCain’s campaign promise to repeal Obamacare. Trump also attacked McCain and
derided McCain’s performance as a soldier in Vietnam where McCain was
held as a Prisoner of War.)
After the tarp news is reported, reporters quote McCain’s daughter
attacking Trump as if he had given the orders to cover the name.
It is further reported that the U.S.S. John McCain was kept out of
Trump’s view, and that sailors wearing hats with the ship’s name on it
were turned away and/or given the day off so that Trump would not see
the McCain name.

However, shortly after these news reports, key parts of the storyline
began to fall apart.
The one grain of truth appeared to be that, in advance of Trump’s trip,
a military official sent an email directing that the U.S.S. McCain be
kept from Trump’s view. However, importantly, that direction was not followed. Further, Trump and White House aides indicated Trump played no
role and was unaware of the direction.

Significantly, military officials stated that it was untrue that a tarp
was placed over the ship’s name to block it from Trump’s view. They say
it was the other way around: a tarp on the ship for maintenance was
removed for Trump’s visit.

Further, U.S. officials said a paint barge in front of the U.S.S. John
S. McCain was ordered to be moved for Trump’s visit and was gone by the
time he arrived.

The tarpaulin was used as part of hull preservation work on the McCain
and was removed on Saturday, two days before Trump delivered a Memorial
Day address at U.S. Naval Base Yokosuka, where the McCain was stationed.
All ships remained in normal configuration during [the President’s visit.

Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for U.S. Pacific Fleet, to NBC News
Though the main components of the Wall Street Journal story appeared to
have been debunked, the New York Times’ Maggie Haberman oddly tweeted
out a statement that the Times had confirmed the Wall Street Journal’s “excellent scoop.”

The main part of the story that the Times seemed to have confirmed was
that unnamed White House officials were concerned about Trump seeing the
McCain name and that sailors wearing ball caps that sported the ship’s insignia were turned away.

However, CBS News pointed out that “it is possible the reason they were turned away is that ball caps were not part of the dress code for the
event.”

U.S. officials said about 800 sailors from more than 20 ships and Navy
commands were present for the president’s visit and “all wore the same
Navy hat that has no logo, rather than wearing individual ship or
command hats.”

77. July 4, 2019
Several news outlets seemed to be victimized by a bad case of wishful
thinking when they reported that President Trump’s Fourth of July
celebration did not draw crowds. One analysis incorrectly claimed there
were “small crowds.”
The Guardian featured a photo of an empty podium in Washington D.C.
prior to the celebration and claimed the White House was “struggling” to draw crowds.

However, by any factual assessment, the crowds were, in fact, huge.
That’s in spite of the bad weather.

78. January 2019
In January, New York Times, Vice and others reported on the “lost” immigrant children of the Trump administration. However, AP and other
fact checks stated this was a misleading term. According to AP, the
“lost” children were a matter of the government not being able to track them once placed with sponsors. In some cases this was because the
sponsors– many in the U.S. illegally– would not respond to the government’s follow up phone calls.

It’s not highly unusual to fail to keep track of many minors who came unaccompanied to the border. During the last year of the Obama
administration, HHS was able to locate 85 percent of the minors or their sponsors, according to an inspector general’s report. The Trump administration slightly exceeded that success rate in the last three
months of 2017, even as it is accused of losing children.
Associated Press fact check

79. July 13, 2019
In a story about a lawsuit alleging that candidate Trump forcibly kissed
a campaign worker, CNN failed to mention that that lawsuit had been
dismissed. It later corrected its story to include the information.

80. July 21, 2019
Many in the media uncritically report a Georgia State legislator’s
racist and false claim that a “white” man at a grocery store told her to “go back where you came from.”
Media reports link the supposed hateful comment to President Trump
because Trump recently said several Democrats in Congress should “go
back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from
which they came.”
However, the following day, the legislator acknowledges the man did not
say she should “go back to your country” or “go back to where you came from,” as she originally claimed. She goes on to say she told him to “go back.” The man adds he is not white, but a Cuban and a Democrat.
I know I told him to ‘go back.’
Rep. Erica Thomas, Georgia, a day after her original accusations
After the legislator changes her story, the local news plays up the
headline that the man “admits he swore,” rather than the far more
important acknowledgement that her major claim was false. (See around
2:05 in the video near the end of the story.)

Even after the legislator retracted her original accusation, it remained
widely published in national headlines and news reports.

81. July 21, 2019
An MSNBC contributor and law professor falsely tweets that Fox is not
going to show upcoming Congressional testimony by former Special Counsel
Robert Mueller on the Trump-Russia investigation. When the error is
pointed out, the contributor says she was just kidding and deletes her tweet–but not before it has been “liked” and “retweeted” thousands of times.

82. Aug. 2019
Multiple news outlets including CNN and MSNBC falsely reported that an
illegal immigrant had her nursing baby ripped from her arms. The mother
was not lactating, CNN later acknowledged.

83. Aug. 28, 2019
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell apologizes for and retracts anonymous, unverified claims stating that Trump had loans with Russian co-signers.
At last view, it appeared that far more people had seen or remarked on
the initial information than the apology.

The now-deleted original tweet by O’Donnell stated: “A source close to Deutsche Bank says Trump’s tax returns show he pays very little income
tax and, more importantly, that his loans have Russian co-signers. If
true, that explains every kind word Trump has ever said about Russia and Putin.”

84. Aug. 28, 2019
Ken Dilinian of NBC News corrects a false report he and others
disseminated claiming that starting October 29, “children born to U.S. service members outside of the U.S. will no longer be automatically
considered citizens. Parents will have to apply for citizenship for
their the [sic] children in those situations.”

85. Sept. 7, 2019
CNN and nearly every major media outlet criticized President Trump for
tweeting that Alabama would likely be impacted by Hurricane Dorian. They claimed that was never the case. However, Trump was correct that
multiple official hurricane advisories had put Alabama in a projected
impacted area.
Watch for yourself.
There is no record of any corrections to these incorrect news stories.
In fact, there are multiple follow ups repeating the false claims that
Alabama was never in a projected path, and doubling down on the claim
that Trump was inaccurate.

Rather than admit an error, some news outlets skirted the issue, parsing probabilities, “would” vs. “could,” the National Weather Service vs. the
National Hurricane Center, and whether tropical storm force winds really qualify as hurricane effects.
(Above: Politico title)
(Above: New York Magazine Intelligencer title)

86. Sept. 10, 2019
Citing anonymous sources, CNN and the New York Times reported— and other media repeated– claims that the CIA had to remove a top U.S. spy from
Russia in 2017 because of concern over President Trump’s handling of classified information.

The CIA, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and the White House strongly
refuted the story. Other media, including The New York Times and
Washington Post, also contradicted CNN and reported the decision to
remove the spy happened before CNN said it did and for different reasons.

[CNN’s] reporting is not only incorrect, it has the potential to put
lives in danger.
Stephanie Grisham, White House press secretary
CNN’s narrative that the Central Intelligence Agency makes life-or-death decisions based on anything other than objective analysis and sound
collection is simply false…Misguided speculation that the President’s handling of our nation’s most sensitive intelligence ? which he has
access to each and every day ? drove an alleged exfiltration operation
is inaccurate.

Brittany Bramell, CIA Director for Public Affairs
The reporting is materially inaccurate… as a former CIA director, I
don?t talk about things like this very often ? it is only the occasions
that I think put people at risk, when the reporting is so egregious as
to create enormous risks to the United States of America, that I even
comment the way I just did.

Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State
At least some of the original stories remained posted a day later
without correction, clarification or updating to include CIA’s refutation.

87. Sept. 16, 2019
The New York Times publishes an editor’s note about its recent story recounting a newly-reported accusation about an incident decades ago
involving Trump-nominated Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

The editor’s note discloses for the first time that the Times never
spoke to the alleged victim, and that the alleged victim had told
friends she had no recollection of any such event. The Times reporters explained that that information had mistakenly been edited out of the story.

88. July 24, 2019
In testimony to Congress, special counsel Robert Mueller puts to final
rest the widespread reporting in 2016 originating with Slate.com that
claimed a Russian bank server had been illicitly communicating with
Trump Tower. When asked about it by a member of Congress, Mueller
replied that “my belief at this point is…not true.”

89. July 29, 2019
Vox.com’s Aaron Rupar tweeted that Trump suggested he was a “9/11 First Responder.” In fact, Trump stated the opposite: “I’m not considering myself a first responder.”

90. Sept. 25, 2019
The Washington Post, quoting anonymous sources, reported that President Trump’s Director of National Intelligence threatened to quit over an
alleged whistleblower issue.

Daily Beast headline
However, DNI Joseph Maguire issues a statement indicating the Post
article was entirely false. “At no time have I considered resigning my position since assuming this role,” wrote Maguire in a statement.

91. Sept. 25, 2019
The Daily Beast and other media outlets reported that President Trump
asked the President of Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, eight times in one phone call.

Daily Beast headline
However, the released transcript notes reveal Trump mentioned Biden’s
son (not by name) one time. However, many in the media claimed the
“eight times” allegation was really true because they counted each
phrase in which Trump referred to possible corruption or the need for
some sort of investigation.

(There are other areas of possible mistaken reporting regarding the same
phone call, but they are generally subject to interpretation.)

92. Sept. 29, 2019
CBS News’s 60 Minutes reports “the government whistleblower who set off
the impeachment inquiry of President Trump is under federal protection
because they fear for their safety.”

Shortly after that report, the attorney for the unnamed “whistleblower,” Mark Zaid, tweeted out a statement that read: “NEWS ALERT: 60 Minutes completely misinterpreted contents of our letter.” (Sixty Minutes says
it stands by the Scott Pelley report.)

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93. Sept. 30, 2019
When a black girl claims white boys at school held her down, cut off her
hair and called her “nappy” and “ugly,” the story makes national news. Multiple news outlets improperly report some details as if they are
established as true, without proper attribution. For example, NBC
writes, “The attack happened Monday…” and “The second boy grabbed her arms, while the third cut off some of her dreadlocks.” A local NBC
affiliate writes: “…she was at recess and about to go down a slide when
one of the boys grabbed her and put a hand over her mouth. Another boy
grabbed her arms. A third boy cut off some of her hair.” CBS writes,
“The incident took place…” (as if an incident had been factually established rather than was an allegation).

Many news reports also connect the attack to President Trump’s Vice President, Mike Pence, by stating that the “attack” happened at “a Christian school in Virginia where Vice President Mike Pence’s wife works.”

However, it turns out there was no attack or “incident.” Three days
after the initial reports, the child’s family reported the whole story
was made up, and they apologized.

94. Oct. 13, 2019
ABC airs video purportedly showing a “slaughter” and “horrific report of atrocities” against Kurds by Turkey after President Trump withdrew U.S. troops. (The video is not combat video at all. It is file tape of a
training show in the U.S.)

ABC tweets out the following:

CORRECTION: We’ve taken down video that aired on “World News Tonight” Sunday and “Good Morning America” this morning that appeared to be from
the Syrian border immediately after questions were raised about its
accuracy. ABC News regrets the error.

95. Oct. 16, 2019
Many major news outlets including Yahoo, USA Today, Roll Call, NBC, ABC
and Fox quotes President Trump as saying Turkey’s invasion of Syria “is
not our problem.” In a subsequent correction, NBC and others said, Trump actually said “it’s not our border.” However, hours after NBC’s correction, the initial allegedly false quote remains on Yahoo, USA
Today, Fox, Roll Call, the Washington Times and other news sites.


96. Sun. Oct. 27, 2019
Multiple media claims state that President Trump was golfing during the
U.S. raid in Syria that captured the head of the Islamic terrorist group
ISIS, al-Baghdadi; and that a White House situation room photo had been “staged.” It turns out, according to later reports, that Trump had
finished golfing and was at the White House during the operation. (Obama
White House photographer Pete Souza had apparently originally tweeted
out incorrect information on timing.)


97. Nov. 16, 2019
Rampant speculation ensues after a contributor to The Hill claims
President Trump visited Walter Reed National Medical Center due to chest discomfort. A White House statement from Trump’s physician issued two
days later stated that was not the case.

“Despite some of the speculation, the President has not had any chest
pain, nor was he evaluated or treated or any urgent or acute issues. Specifically, he did not undergo any specialized cardiac or neurologic evaluations,” the president’s physician stated.

98. Nov. 19, 2019
London’s Daily Mail posts a sensational headline during the impeachment hearings against President Trump. It claims that a key witness,
Ambassador Kurt Volker, had “walked back” his testimony in a way that
was detrimental to Trump. When Volker was asked, in real time at the
hearing, if the Daily Mail headline was correct and he had, indeed,
changed his testimony, Volker stated that no. The headline was wrong.

99. Nov. 19, 2019
Agence France Press publishes a sensational story saying that more than
100,000 children are being held in migration-related detention in the
U.S. under President Trump. It turns out that was the number in 2015
under President Obama.


100. Nov. 28, 2019
Newsweek falsely reports that President Trump is spending Thanksgiving
golfing in Florida at his Mar-a-Lago Resort. He was actually in
Afghanistan serving dinner to U.S. troops. It’s the second year in a row
that national media makes the same mistake. (The reporter, Jessica
Kwong, was reportedly later fired.)


101. Nov. 24, 2019
It turns out the same Newsweek reporter, Kwong, reported an allegedly misleading story the week before about President Trump’s tipping
implying he’d been cheap.

Newsweek later updated the story to remove the headline reference to a
“thin stack of cash” and include that it was 100 dollar bills, and above and beyond what Trump had already tipped the servers.



102. Dec. 3, 2019
(Allegation) Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) files a $435 million defamation lawsuit against CNN over a Nov. 23 CNN story that claimed Nunes had
flown to Vienna, Austria in December 2018 to meet with a former
Ukrainian prosecutor in to dig up dirt on Joe Biden and his son, Hunter.

Nunes says at the time CNN claimed he was in Vienna, he was actually in Benghazi, Libya and Malta for meetings; and Nunes produced photographs
he says proves that. Additionally, he says he has never met with the
named former Ukrainian prosecutor in Vienna or anywhere else.

(If evidence ultimately shows CNN was correct and Nunes is incorrect,
this post will be updated and removed from the count.)

103. Dec. 9, 2019
It would be difficult if not impossible from a practical standpoint to
list the thousands of the media reports, from the New York Times to CNN,
that have now been proven false by information documented in Justice
Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report on the FBI’s misbehavior in investigating the Trump campaign.

Here, they will all be grouped together as one media mistake, but
include nearly every major national media outlet that falsely reported,
as if fact, that the discredited Democrat-funded “dossier” — submitted
by the FBI to get a wiretap to spy on Trump associate Carter Page — was
only a “small part” of the wiretap application. Also, the reports that
Page was a Russian spy and the conduit between Trump and Putin. Also,
the many insistences that Trump was a “Putin stooge” and coordinating
with Putin or Russia, when the FBI’s own evidence now shows they never
found anything remotely close to that. In fact, they appeared to
disprove it.


104. Jan. 31, 2018
(Out of chronological order because it just came to my attention.)

Media reports in Dec. 2017 claimed the Trump administration banned
officials at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from
using seven words.

In response, doctors posted photos of themselves with tape over their
mouths.

It turns out documents showed there was “not a ban or prohibition on
words but rather suggestions on how to improve the chances of getting funding.”

105. Dec. 25, 2019
(Allegation) An unusually unequivocal denial of a Wall Street Journal
report come from the Trump administration. Trump officials say the anonymously-sourced report is “total false, untrue and baseless. It did
not happen.”

If information comes to light that proves the Wall Street Journal source
was accurate at the time, this post will be updated to reflect that.


106. Dec. 16, 2019
The news media widely misreport that the report by Dept. of Justice
Inspector General Horowitz found “no political bias” in the Russia
probe. As Horowitz made clear in his Congressional testimony, that is false.

Instead, Horowitz gave a limited, qualified opinion about a narrow part
of the opening of the investigation, stating he could not find
documentary or testimonial evidence that the serious political bias of
various FBI officials impacted the original decision to open the probe
into Trump campaign-related Americans.

Horowitz explicitly acknowledged that various FBI officials involved in
the probe, including Peter Strzok and Lisa Page had political bias
against Trump.

He also stated, in Congressional testimony, that Christopher Steele, the political opposition researcher hired by the Clinton campaign to provide
the anti-Trump “dossier” to the FBI, had political bias.

And he stated that it’s possible political bias was behind other
inexplicable and egregious errors the FBI made during the probe, which
he did not say was free of bias. Those matters, Horowitz testified, have
been referred to the criminal probe and to the FBI to handle.


107. Aug. 5, 2019
(Out of chronological order because it just came to my attention.)

MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace falsely claims that President Trump had talked
about “exterminating Latinos.” She apologized the next day stating, on Twitter, “I misspoke about Trump calling’s for an extermination of
Latinos. My mistake was unintentional and I’m sorry.”

108. Jan. 9, 2019
(Out of chronological order because it just came to my attention.)

Ken Vogel of the New York Times corrects a story that falsely claimed
Trump adviser Paul Manafort had wanted to share polling data with a
Russian oligarch close to President Putin.


109. Dec. 27, 2019
The New York Times corrects a report it published to demonstrate how
people who voted for Donald Trump no longer support him. Their featured
example was a man who– it turns out– never voted for Trump in the first place.


110. Jan. 7, 2020
MSNBC wrongly reports up to 30 U.S. deaths after an Iranian rocket
attack. In fact, no Americans were killed. The number was a fabricated
number reported by the Iranians.

111. Jan. 16, 2020
MSNBC’s John Brennan, former CIA Director, falsely reports that Trump personally wrote a note regarding wanting Ukraine’s president to
announce an investigation into possible corruption related to the former
vice president and his son.


112. Feb. 21, 2020
The New York Times and multiple other news outlets report on a secret
briefing to Congress that supposedly told lawmakers that Russia is
interfering to try to get Trump reelected in 2020. The report is later
followed up by stories indicating that the warnings may have been “overstated.” In fact, officials told CNN the US “does not have evidence that Russia’s interference this cycle is aimed at reelecting Trump.”

113. Feb. 26, 2020
Amid the coronavirus outbreak, multiple media outlets imply or state
that President Trump slashed, cut or gutted the budget for the Centers
for Disease Control. In fact, the CDC budget has increased each year.

114. Feb. 28, 2020
Numerous media outlets falsely report that President Trump called the coronavirus a “hoax.” In fact, the president called the Democrats’ politicization of the outbreak a hoax.

115. March 1, 2020
(Allegation) Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) announces plans to sue The
Washington Post over what he says was false reporting about him. The
Post claimed Nunes went to the White House and talked to President Trump
about a Congressional briefing by then-Acting Director of National
Intelligence Joseph Maguire about prospects of Russia interference in
the current 2020 campaign. The Post report then claimed that Trump “erupted” at Maguire before replacing him.

Nunes says he never talked to the president about Maguire and did not go
to the White House when The Post claimed he did.

If information comes to light showing that The Post was correct, this
post will be updated.

116. March 5, 2020
The Washington Post editorial team refers to many of America’s “hundred
of millions” of voters in the U.S. supporting Joe Biden. But there are
not that many voters in the U.S. (There were 153,000,000 people
registered to vote in 2018. Tens of millions of them do not vote.).


117. March 15, 2020
An anonymously-sourced news report alleges President Trump attempted to
bribe a German coronavirus vaccine maker and wants to hoard the vaccine
so only Americans will have it.

Reuters reported that the German Health Ministry confirmed the report.

However, the German Health Ministry clarified it had not verified the
report, just a quote attributed to one of its spokespersons. The Trump administration denied the report altogether.

(If the original report is verified and turns out to be true, after all,
this entry will be removed from the list.)

118. March 18, 2020
The New York Times and Jeremy Peters publish an article with multiple
false claims about Sharyl Attkisson and Rob Schneider, claiming they and
others have “minimized” coronavirus risks and “insisted” it it is overplayed. In fact, Peters altered an Attkisson quote and made at least
nine false claims about her work. Peters also manipulated a Schneider
quote and quoted him out of context in order to make him appear as
though he had violated recommendations not to eat at restaurants, when
he had not. More details here.

April 1, The New York Times lawyers issue multiple Corrections to the
false article. They:

Partially fix a deceptively-altered quote
Remove a section
Amend three parts
Publish a “correction”


119. March 19, 2020
Jennifer Rubin of The Washington Post wrongly blames Republican leader
Senator Mitch McConnell for delaying a coronavirus package vote. The
Post later issued a correction, stating: “An earlier version of this
article incorrectly said that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
(R-Ky.) delayed a vote on the House’s coronavirus relief package. In
fact, McConnell vowed to move at “warp speed” on the bill and it was
only delayed due to a demand from Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) for an
amendment on the bill. This version has been updated.”


120. March 27, 2020
The New York Times issues a correction after falsely reporting that the
U.S. was short at least 800 thousand ventilators in the coronavirus
crisis because a million would be needed and there were only 200k on
hand. In fact, a study actually projected a million people may need a ventilator over the course of the pandemic, not at one time.


121. March 28, 2020
A New York Times timeline about the slow implementation of coronavirus
testing in the U.S. is corrected. The date of the country’s first
confirmed case of coronavirus through travel was almost two weeks later
than stated in the original timeline.

122. March 30, 2020
CBS This Morning airs a story supposedly showing video of a New York
hospital crowded coronavirus patients. Some viewers recognized it as the
same video shown to represent a hospital in Italy.

CBS News issues a correction saying the network mistakenly used the
Italy video in the U.S. story. “It was an editing mistake. We took
immediate steps to remove it from all platforms and shows,” a CBS News spokesperson said.

123. April 6, 2020
CBS News airs social media video of a crying woman who says she was a
nurse and quit her job due to not having masks while treating
coronavirus patients. The video got more than eight million views.

When questions were raised about the video, CBS left it up but added a “clarification”: “Imaris Vera, the nurse in this video, clarified her experience on Monday in a tweet: ‘We were each assigned 1 N95 per 1
covid patient?s room but was not allowed to wear it outside of the room,
wear our own N95 mask around the Nurses station or Halls, which I came
prepared with’.”

The clarification did anything but clear up the facts, but it seems to
indicate nobody was asked to treat coronavirus patients without masks,
after all.


124. April 8, 2020
Days after CBS News mistakenly uses shots of an Italian hospital as if
it is in New York City, and apologizes for the mistake (Mistake #122
above), the network uses the same Italy video again in a discussion
about coronavirus-overrun Pennsylvania hospitals.

125. April 15, 2020
A Facebook “science fact check” incorrectly flags as “false” an Epoch Times coronavirus documentary about the virus’s possible link to a
Wuhan, China research lab. That’s despite the fact that none of the documentary’s information is proven false, and the documentary draws no conclusions.

In addition, contrary to Facebook’s fake “fact check,” the government
has explicitly announced it is investigating information that the
Covid-19 outbreak started with a leak at the lab.


It turns out the first named reviewer referenced by Facebook’s fact
check is a U.S. scientist who has been working at the Wuhan lab.


126. April 14, 2020
The U.S. government publicly confirms it is looking into possible links
between coronavirus and a research lab in Wuhan, China.

On Feb. 17, 2020, Paulina Firozi of The Washington Post had falsely
declared the idea of the virus coming from the Wuhan lab to be
“debunked.” It had not been debunked.


In fact, a more recent April 14 article by The Washington Post debunked
the earlier Washington Post article’s claim that the Wuhan tie had been debunked.


127. April 22, 2020
Reuters and other new outlets claim President Trump tapped a “former Labradoodle breeder… to lead U.S. pandemic task force.” They imply the official, Brian Harrison, is unqualified and blame him for supposed
slowing the U.S. coronavirus response.

The stories from multiple outlets appear on the same day.

However, Harrison never led the coronavirus task force. Additionally,
while he did briefly own a family business raising Labradoodles, he has
also served three administrations in high level posts and was not
plucked from dog breeding obscurity to serve on the pandemic task force.

128. April 25, 2020
After Marketwatch and The Washington Post report coronavirus checks may
or “will” be delayed several days to get President Trump’s signature on them, the Treasury Department announces the checks are being issued “on
time, as planned” and that there was no delay.

129. April 25, 2020
In a widely distributed report, Politico reports that President Trump
owes the Bank of China tens of millions of dollars in a loan coming due
in 2022, as he deals with China on coronavirus. However, the Bank of
China issued a statement saying it only held the loan for 22 days and
sold it to a U.S. real estate firm in 2012.

Politico changed its headline and details of the story but did not issue
a “correction” or apology, and still maintains Trump has improper ties
to China.

Update: Politico belatedly issued a correction three days later,
acknowledging that they committed a basic mistake by not asking the Bank
of China for comment before publication.




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