Trump was pressuring Georgia to overturn and invalidate votes. He was interfering with the election.
To suggest that he wasn't doing that is what knowaveragejoe means by peddling the Fox/OANN/Newsmax line.
So while the Washington Post may not have gotten the exact words right. It's not like they were wrong about what was occuring. The worst that could be said is that they were paraphrasing.
It's like you're suggesting Trump should be let off the hook because of a technicality.
I guess I’m not following you here because it seems like you’re making a pretty wild claim. Are you saying that the original story was correct, but it was the retraction which was somehow wrong?
That just seems...odd.
Or are you just not seeing the story or something?
> Correction: Two months after publication of this story, the Georgia secretary of state released an audio recording of President Donald Trump’s December phone call with the state’s top elections investigator. The recording revealed that The Post misquoted Trump’s comments on the call, based on information provided by a source. Trump did not tell the investigator to “find the fraud” or say she would be “a national hero” if she did so. Instead, Trump urged the investigator to scrutinize ballots in Fulton County, Ga., asserting she would find “dishonesty” there. He also told her that she had “the most important job in the country right now.” A story about the recording can be found here. The headline and text of this story have been corrected to remove quotes misattributed to Trump.
The story was wrong. It wasn’t that they just misquoted him. The quote was the predicate for the entire story which they are now acknowledging was made up.
>pressuring to overturn and invalidate votes
Yes, but if those votes were cast illegally, shouldnt they be invalidated? That is the core debate here.
“If votes are cast illegally, they should not be counted” does not seem like it should be a controversial claim, and the absolutely absurd amount of spin and misinformation that people are putting out to try and claim that it should even be up for debate is incredibly damaging to having a functioning democracy.
And in fact I would say that some of the comments here are doing a good job of illustrating the damage that this sort of misinformation can have.
If I'm understanding this correctly, you're conflating two different phone calls.
> The Washington Post recently had to issue a high-profile correction to January reporting about one of two known calls in which Donald Trump urged Georgia officials to find evidence to overturn the state’s election results.
> The newspaper initially said Trump told an elections investigator she should “find the fraud” and that she would be a “national hero” if she did so. But a newly surfaced recording of the call shows he didn’t use those words. Instead, he told her to uncover the “dishonesty” and that “when the right answer comes out, you’ll be praised.”
> The Post did not retract its story, as some people on social media claimed. The correction did not involve its Jan. 3 reporting about what Trump told Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger during another phone call. The Post published the full audio and transcript of that call.
Anyways, this never rose to the level of the sort of Fake News being pushed by the right-wing grift-o-sphere, and to pretend it's in the same league is ignorant at best. We're literally talking about issuing a retraction, something none of these conservative grifting outlets are known to do when they are routinely shown to be pushing misinformation.
They weren't and there was no reason to think that they were. And he was only asking them to "find the dishonesty" in specific places.
While he may not have uttered the exact syllables reported, the core of the story, the central message, was correct. Trump tried to pressure Georgia into overturning an election.
Trying to paint it as a complete refutation of the story is misinformation. You are the one attempting to do damage here.
