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NPR falsely claimed that Donald Trump Jr.’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee in September 2017 conflicted with an account given by a former attorney for President Donald Trump.
Here is NPR’s false write-up of that testimony:
Trump Jr. told the Senate Judiciary Committee in September 2017 that although there had been negotiations surrounding a prospective Trump Tower in Moscow, they concluded without result ‘at the end’ of 2014.
‘But not in 2015 or 2016?’ Trump Jr. was asked.
‘Certainly not ’16,’ he said. ‘There was never a definitive end to it. It just died of deal fatigue.’
Trump’s account contrasts with the new version of events given by Cohen on Thursday in a guilty plea in federal court. In that new version, Cohen says the discussions with at least one Russian government official and others in Moscow continued through June 2016, well into Trump’s presidential campaign.
In fact, Senate investigators were asking Trump Jr. about a series of efforts to develop property in Russia, going back several years. Reporter Phil Ewing (reporter Tim Mak contributed to the story) conflates one of those efforts with another separate effort. That conflation results in the false news report.
I notice all the people that deny that the media pushes fake news are suspiciously absent from this thread.
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Originally Posted by leebeemi
And the story was already updated to reflect that there were two different "deals" in these testimonies.
Yes, but it would be impossible to make that mistake, they knew there was two deals.
They quoted Don Jr's testimony from the transcript, they read the transcript, they knew the answer he gave, and they quoted in the article, was about a different deal.
This was done purposefully to deceive the reads into believing that Don Jr lied under oath.
Which is what a facts-based organization would do. In contrast to Fox News and the Republican party. Where are the corrections to the millions of lies told by them?
Editor's note: An earlier version of this report mischaracterized an answer Donald Trump Jr. gave to Senate investigators in 2017 about the prospective projects his family was negotiating with people in Moscow.
The story reported that Trump Jr.'s response — that negotiations on one project concluded by the end of 2014 — contrasted with the version of events as laid out in the guilty plea by Michael Cohen on Thursday. In fact, Trump Jr. and investigators were alluding to a different set of negotiations — not to a deal that Cohen was reportedly pursuing. Trump Jr. did acknowledge in his testimony that Cohen and another man were exploring a possible deal in Moscow in 2015 or 2016.
Trump Jr. did not address what Cohen has now admitted — that talks about such a deal continued at least into June 2016, longer than previously known and well into the presidential campaign.
I notice all the people that deny that the media pushes fake news are suspiciously absent from this thread.
Yes, but it would be impossible to make that mistake, they knew there was two deals.
They quoted Don Jr's testimony from the transcript, they read the transcript, they knew the answer he gave, and they quoted in the article, was about a different deal.
This was done purposefully to deceive the reads into believing that Don Jr lied under oath.
Where the truth is the left will be absent !!! They know their place. Truth is their Kryptonite.
Which is what a facts-based organization would do. In contrast to Fox News and the Republican party. Where are the corrections to the millions of lies told by them?
They quoted Don Jr's testimony from the transcript, they read the transcript, they knew the answer he gave, and they quoted in the article, was about a different deal.
It would be impossible to make a mistake, they knew they were lying.
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