Sunday, 26 January 2020

111 Media Mistakes in the Trump Era: The Definitive List


Up to date Jan. 16, 2020 

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We the media have “fact-checked” President Trump like we have now fact-checked no different human being on the planet—and he’s actually given us loads to write down about. That’s in all probability why it’s really easy to seek out lists enumerating and analyzing his errors, missteps and “lies.”

 

However as self-appointed arbiters of reality, we’ve largely excused our personal unprecedented string of fact-challenged reporting. The reality is, previously well-respected, prime information organizations are making repeat, unforced errors in numbers that had been unprecedented simply a few years in the past.

 

Our repeat errors contain declaring that Trump’s claims are “lies” when they’re issues of opinion, or when the reality between conflicting sources is unknowable; taking Trump’s statements and occasions out of context; reporting secondhand accounts in opposition to Trump with out attribution as in the event that they’re established reality; counting on untruthful, conflicted sources; and presenting reporter opinions in information tales—with out labeling them as opinions.

 

What’s worse, we defend ourselves by making an attempt to persuade the general public that our errors are literally a advantage as a result of we (typically) right them. Or we blame Trump for why we’re getting a lot flawed. It’s a little bit bit like a police officer taking somebody to jail for DUI, then driving house drunk himself: he could also be right to arrest the suspect, however he ought to actually know higher than to commit the identical violation.

 

So since no one else has compiled an up to date, intensive checklist of this type, listed below are:

 

111 Notable Errors and Missteps in Main Media Reporting on Donald Trump

 

1. Aug. 2016-Nov. 2016:

The New York Put up revealed modeling images of Trump’s spouse Melania and reported they had been taken in 1995. Varied information shops relied on that date to indicate that Melania—an immigrant—had violated her visa standing. However the media acquired the date flawed. Politico was among the many information companies that later issued a photograph date correction.

 

2. Oct. 1, 2016:

The New York Occasions and different media broadly prompt or implied that Trump had not paid earnings taxes for 18 years. Later, tax return pages leaked to MSNBC in the end confirmed that Trump truly paid a better fee than Democrats Bernie Sanders and President Obama. 

 

3. Oct. 18, 2016:

In a Washington Put up piece not labelled opinion or evaluation, Stuart Rothenberg reported that Trump’s path to an electoral faculty victory was “nonexistent.”

 

4. Nov. 4, 2016:

USA At the moment misstated Melania Trump’s “arrival date from Slovenia” amid a flurry of reporting that questioned her immigration standing from the mid-1990s.

 

 

5. Nov. 9, 2016: 

Early on election night time, the Detroit Free Press known as the state of Michigan for Hillary Clinton. Trump truly received Michigan.

 

Nancy Sinatra by way of Twitter

6. Jan. 20, 2017:

CNN claimed Nancy Sinatra was “not blissful” at her father’s music getting used at Trump’s inauguration. Sinatra responded, “That’s not true. I by no means stated that. Why do you lie, CNN?…Really I’m wishing him the perfect.”

 

 

7. Jan. 20, 2017:

Zeke Miller of TIME reported that President Trump had eliminated the bust statue of civil rights chief Martin Luther King Jr. from the Oval Workplace. The information went viral. It was false.

8. Jan. 26, 2017: 

Josh Rogin of the Washington Put up reported that the State Division’s “whole senior administrative workforce” had resigned in protest of Trump. A variety of media shops starting from politically left to proper, together with liberal-leaning Vox, acknowledged that declare was deceptive or flawed.

 

9. Jan. 28, 2017

CNBC’s John Harwood reported the Justice Division “had no enter” on Trump’s immigration government order. After a colleague contradicted Harwood’s report, he amended it to mirror that Justice Division legal professionals reportedly had reviewed Trump’s order.

 

10. Jan. 31, 2017:

CNN’s Jeff Zeleny reported the White Home arrange Twitter accounts for 2 judges to attempt to preserve Trump’s choice for Supreme Court docket secret. Zeleny later corrected his report back to state that the Twitter accounts had not been arrange by the White Home.

 

11. Feb. 2, 2017:

TMZ reported Trump modified the identify of “Black Historical past Month” to “African American Historical past Month,” implying the change was untoward or racist. In reality, Presidents Obama, George W. Bush and Invoice Clinton had all beforehand known as Black Historical past month “African American Historical past” month.

 

12. Feb. 2, 2017:

AP reported that Trump had threatened the president of Mexico with invasion to do away with “unhealthy hombres.” Quite a few publications adopted swimsuit. The White Home stated it wasn’t true and the Washington Put up eliminated the AP information that “couldn’t be independently confirmed.”

 

13. Feb. 4, 2017:

Josh Rogin of the Washington Put up reported on “Contained in the White Home-Cupboard Battle Over Trump’s Immigration Order,” solely to have the article up to date repeatedly to notice that one of many reported conferences had not truly occurred, {that a} convention name had not occurred as described, and that actions attributed to Trump had been truly taken by his chief of workers.


14. Feb. 14, 2017:

The New York Occasions’ Michael S. Schmidt, Mark Mazzetti and Matt Apuzzo reported about supposed contacts between Trump marketing campaign workers and “senior Russian intelligence officers.” Comey later testified “In the principle, [the article] was not true.”

 

15. Feb. 22, 2017:

ProPublica’s Raymond Bonner reported CIA official Gina Haspel—Trump’s later choose for CIA Director—was in command of a secret CIA jail the place Islamic extremist terrorist Abu Zubaydah was waterboarded 83 occasions in a single month, and that she mocked the prisoner’s struggling. Greater than a 12 months later, ProPublica retracted the declare, stating that “Neither of those assertions is right…Haspel didn’t take cost of the bottom till after the interrogation of Zubaydah ended.” 

 

16. April 5, 2017:

An article bylined by the New York Occasions’ graphic editors Karen Yourish and Troy Griggs referred to Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, as Trump’s spouse.

 

17. Might 10, 2017:

A number of shops together with Politico, the New York Occasions, the Washington Put up, CNN, AP, Reuters and the Wall Avenue Journal reported the identical leaked info: that Trump fired FBI Director James Comey shortly after Comey requested extra assets to analyze Russian interference within the election.

 

The New York Occasions’ Matthew Rosenberg and Matt Apuzzo, and CNN’s Sara Murray reported the knowledge in sentences and paragraphs that omitted attribution, as if it had been a longtime reality. The Washington Put up’s Philip Rucker, Ashley Parker, Sari Horwitz and Robert Costa wrote information articles within the type of opinion items and from an omniscient viewpoint as in the event that they had been by some means within the thoughts of Trump. For instance, they reported, “Each time FBI Director James B. Comey appeared in public, an ever-watchful President Trump grew more and more agitated that the subject was the one which he was most determined to keep away from: Russia.” (Different reporters —Reuters’ Dustin Volz and Susan Cornwell— did correctly attribute the declare.) 

 

The Justice Division, Deputy Legal professional Basic Rod Rosenstein and Appearing FBI Director Andrew McCabe stated the media studies had been unfaithful and McCabe added that the FBI’s Russia investigation was “adequately resourced.”

 

18. Might 27, 2017:

The BBC’s James Landale, The Guardian and others reported that Trump wasn’t bothering to take heed to the interpretation throughout a speech in Italian by Italy’s Prime Minister. They drew that conclusion with out asking the White Home and primarily based on a video that confirmed different political leaders carrying massive headphones. The Guardian even claimed Trump was pretend listening (smiling and nodding). After the studies circulated, the White Home acknowledged that, as all the time, Trump was certainly carrying an earpiece in his proper ear.

 

19. June 4, 2017:

NBC Information reported in a Tweet that Russian President Vladimir Putin advised TV host Megan Kelly that he had compromising details about Trump. Really, Putin stated the other: that he didn’t have compromising info on Trump.

 

20. June 6, 2017:

CNN’s Gloria Borger, Eric Lichtblau, Jake Tapper and Brian Rokus; and ABC’s Justin Fishel and Jonathan Karl reported that Comey was going to refute Donald Trump’s declare that Comey advised Trump thrice he was not beneath investigation. As an alternative, Comey did the other and confirmed Trump’s declare.

 

21. June 7, 2017:

In a fact-check story, AP reported erroneously that Trump misinterpret the potential price to a household with insurance coverage beneath the Reasonably priced Care Act who needed care from their present physician.  

 

 

22. June 8, 2017:

The New York Occasions’ Jonathan Weisman reported that Comey testified Trump Legal professional Basic Jeff Classes advised Comey to not name the Russia probe “an investigation” however “a matter.” Weisman was mistaken concerning the legal professional normal and the probe. Really, it was Obama Legal professional Basic Loretta Lynch (not Classes) who advised Comey to confer with the Hillary Clinton categorised electronic mail probe (not the Russia probe) as “a matter” as a substitute of “an investigation.”

 

23. June 22, 2017:

CNN’s Thomas Frank reported that Congress was investigating a “Russian funding fund with ties to Trump officers.” The report was later retracted. Frank and two different CNN staff resigned within the fallout.

 

24. December 2, 2017: 

ABC Information’ Brian Ross reported that former Trump official Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn was going to testify that candidate Trump had directed him to contact “the Russians.” Although such contact wouldn’t be in of itself a violation of legislation, the information was handled as an explosive indictment of Trump within the Russia collusion narrative, and the inventory market fell on the information. ABC later corrected the report back to mirror that Trump had already been elected when he reportedly requested Flynn to contact the Russians about working collectively to battle ISIS and different points. Ross was suspended.

 

25. July 6, 2017:

Newsweek’s Chris Riotta and others reported that Poland’s First Girl had refused to shake Trump’s hand. Newsweek’s later “replace” mirrored that the First Girl had shaken Trump’s hand in spite of everything, as clearly seen on the total video. 

 

26. July 6, 2017:

The New York Occasions’ Maggie Haberman, CNN and quite a few shops had lengthy reported, as if reality, the Hillary Clinton declare {that a} complete of 17 American intelligence companies concluded that Russia orchestrated election 12 months assaults to assist get Trump elected. Solely three or 4 companies, not 17, had formally performed so.

 

27. Aug. 31, 2017:

NBC Information’ Ken Dilanian and Carol Lee reported {that a} Trump official’s notes a couple of assembly with a Russian lawyer included the phrase “donation,” as if there have been discussions about suspicious marketing campaign contributions. NBC later corrected the report back to mirror that the phrase “donation” didn’t seem, however nonetheless claimed the phrase “donor” did. Later, Politico reported that the phrase “donor” wasn’t within the notes, both. 

 

28. Sept. 5, 2017:

CNN’s Chris Cillizza and different information shops declared Trump “lied” when he acknowledged that Trump Tower had been wiretapped, though there’s no method any reporter independently knew the reality of the matter—solely that what intel officers claimed. It later turned on the market had been quite a few wiretaps involving Trump Tower, together with a gathering of Trump officers with a international dignitary. Not less than two Trump associates who had places of work in or frequented Trump Tower had been additionally reportedly wiretapped.

 

29. Sept. 7, 2017:

The New York Occasions’ Maggie Haberman reported Democrat chief Rep. Nancy Pelosi known as President Trump about an immigration subject. Trump truly made the decision to Pelosi.

 

30. Nov. 6, 2017:

CNN’s Daniel Shane edited excerpts from a Trump occasion to make it appear as if Trump didn’t understand Japan builds automobiles within the U.S. Nonetheless, Trump’s whole assertion made clear that he does.

 

31. Nov. 6, 2017:

CNN edited a video that made it seem as if Trump impatiently dumped a field of fish meals into the water whereas feeding fish at Japan’s palace. The New York Each day Information, the Guardian and others wrote tales implying Trump was gauche and impetuous. The complete video confirmed that Trump had merely adopted the lead of Japan’s Prime Minister. 

 

32. Nov. 29, 2017:

Newsweek’s Chris Riotta claimed Ivanka Trump “plagiarized” one in all her personal speeches. In reality, plagiarizing one’s personal work is inconceivable since plagiarism is when a author steals another person’s work and passes it off as his personal. 

 

33. Dec. 4, 2017:

The New York Occasions’ Michael S. Schmidt and Sharon LaFraniere and different shops reported that Trump Deputy Nationwide Safety Adviser Okay.T. McFarland supposedly contradicted herself or lied about one other official’s contacts with Russians. The story was closely, repeatedly amended. CNN, MSNBC, CBS Information, New York Each day Information and Each day Beast picked up the story about McFarland’s “lies.”


34. Dec. 4, 2017:

ABC Information’ Trish Turner and Jack Date reported that former Trump marketing campaign chairman Paul Manafort had not too long ago labored with a Russia intelligence-connected “official.” However the Russian wasn’t an “official.” 

 

35. Dec. 5, 2017:

Bloomberg’s Steven Arons and the Wall Avenue Journal’s Jenny Strasburg reported the blockbuster that Particular Counsel Robert Mueller had subpoenaed Trump’s financial institution data. It wasn’t true. 

 

 

36. Dec. 8, 2017:

CNN’s Manu Raju and Jeremy Herb reported that Donald Trump Jr. conspired with WikiLeaks upfront of the publication of damaging Democrat occasion and Clinton marketing campaign emails. Many different publications adopted swimsuit. That they had the date flawed: WikiLeaks and Trump Junior had been in touch after the emails had been revealed. 

37. Jan. 3, 2018:

Speaking Level Memo’s Sam Thielman reported {that a} Russian social media firm supplied paperwork to the Senate about communications with a Trump official. The story was later corrected to say the reporter truly had no thought how the Senate acquired the paperwork and had no proof to counsel the Russian firm was cooperating with the probe.

38. Jan. 12, 2018:

Mediaite’s Lawrence Bonk, CNN’s Sophie Tatum, the Guardian, BBC, US Information and World Report, Reuters and Buzzfeed’s Adolfo Flores reported a “bombshell”— that President Trump had backed down from his well-known demand for a wall alongside the complete Southern border. Nonetheless, Trump stated the exact same factor in February 2016 on MSNBC, on Dec. 2, 2015, within the Nationwide Journal, in October 2015 through the CNBC Republican Major debate, and on Aug. 20, 2015, on FOX Enterprise’ Mornings with Maria.

 

39. Jan. 15, 2018:

AP’s Laurie Kellman and Jonathan Drew reported {that a} new report confirmed belief within the media had fallen through the Trump presidency. However the report that AP cited was truly over a 12 months outdated and was performed whereas Obama was president.

 

40. Feb. 2, 2018:

AP’s Eric Tucker, Mary Clare Jalonick and Chad Day reported that ex-British spy Christopher Steele’s opposition analysis in opposition to Trump was initially funded by a conservative publication: the Washington Free Beacon. AP corrected its story as a result of Steele solely got here on the challenge after Democrats started funding it.

 

 

41. March 8, 2018:

The New York Occasions’ Jan Rosen reported on a hypothetical household whose tax invoice would rise practically $4,000 beneath Trump’s tax plan. It seems the calculations had been off: the couple’s taxes would go truly go down $43; not up $4,000. 

42. March 13, 2018:

The New York Occasions’ Adam Goldman, NBC’s Noreen O’Donnell and AP’s Deb Riechmann reported that Trump’s choose for CIA Director, Gina Haspel, had waterboarded a selected Islamic extremist terrorist dozens of time at a secret jail; and that she had mocked his struggling. In reality, Haspel wasn’t assigned to the jail till after the detainee left. ProPublica initially reported the inaccurate particulars in Feb. 2017.

43. March 15, 2018:

AP’s Michael Biesecker, Jake Pearson and Jeff Horwitz reported {that a} Trump advisory board official had been a Miss America contestant and had killed a black rhino. She truly was a Mrs. America contestant and had shot a nonlethal tranquilizer dart at a white rhino.

 

44. April 1, 2018:

AP’s Nicholas Riccardi reported that the Trump administration had ended a program to confess international entrepreneurs. It wasn’t true. 

45. April 30, 2018:

AP reported that the NRA had banned weapons throughout Trump and Pence speeches on the NRA’s annual assembly. AP later corrected the knowledge as a result of the ban had been put in place by Secret Service.

46. Might 3, 2018:

NBC’s Tom Winter reported that the federal government had wiretapped Trump’s private legal professional Michael Cohen. NBC later corrected the story after three senior U.S. officers stated there was no wiretap.

 

 

47. Might 7, 2018:

CNBC’s Kevin Breuninger reported that Trump’s private lawyer, Cohen, paid $1 million in fines associated to unauthorized automobiles in his taxi enterprise, had been barred from managing taxi medallions, had transferred $60 million offshore to keep away from paying money owed, and is awaiting trial on fees of failing to pay hundreds of thousands in taxes. A later correction acknowledged that none of that was true.

 

48. Might 16, 2018:

The New York Occasions’ Julie Hirschfeld Davis, AP, CNN’s Oliver Darcy and others excerpted a Trump remark as if he had referred to immigrants or unlawful immigrants typically as “animals.” Most shops corrected their studies later to notice that Trump had particularly referred to members of the murderous prison gang MS-13.

49. Might 28, 2018

The New York Occasions’ Journal editor-in-chief Jake Silverstein and CNN’s Hadas Gold shared a narrative with images of immigrant kids in cages as in the event that they had been new images taken beneath the Trump administration. The article and images had been truly taken in 2014 beneath the Obama administration.

 

50. Might 29, 2018

The New York Occasions’ Julie Davis reported the estimated measurement of a Trump rally to be 1,000 individuals. There have been truly 5,500 individuals or extra in attendance.

 

51. June 1, 2018

In a narrative about Trump tariffs, AP reported the greenback worth of Virginia’s farm and forestry exports to Canada and Mexico was $800. It’s $800 million.

 

52. June 21, 2018

Time journal and others used a photograph of a crying Honduran youngster for example a supposed Trump administration coverage separating unlawful immigrant mother and father and kids. The kid’s father later reported that brokers had by no means separated her from her mom; the mom had taken her to the US with out his information and separated herself from her different kids, whom she left behind.

 


53. June 22, 2018

MSNBC character mistakenly acknowledged that Trump had “banned” the Purple Cross from visiting kids separated from unlawful immigrant mother and father. 

 

 

54. June 28, 2018

After a newsroom taking pictures, a newspaper reporter falsely tweeted that the shooter “dropped his [Trump Make America Great Again] hat on newsroom flooring earlier than opening hearth.”

 

55. July 10, 2018

NBC reporter Leigh Ann Caldwell reported that outgoing Supreme Court docket Justice Kennedy solely retired after months of negotiations with Trump that concluded with Trump agreeing to interchange Kennedy with Decide Kavanaugh.

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56. July 16, 2018

Washington Put up reporter implied Trump doesn’t perceive NATO international locations. In reality, Trump met with the Finnish President on the NATO summit. Additional, Finland is a NATO associate, simply not a member.

57. Sept. 14, 2018

The New York Occasions points a serious correction (under) to an authentic “unfair” article about U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley.

58. Tues. Sept. 18, 2018

The New York Occasions falsely reported {that a} man, Mark Decide, testified he remembered an incident greater than 30 12 months in the past through which Supreme Court docket nominee Brett Kavanaugh is accused of assault. Decide truly stated the other: he does not bear in mind such an incident, and that the allegations are “completely nuts.” The Occasions corrected its article in an editors’ be aware.

59. Sept. 23, 2018

A number of information shops report that Deputy Legal professional Basic Rod Rosentein has resigned or been fired. Neither seems to be true. Axios and others finally “replace” and “make clear” their inaccurate studies.

60. Oct. 14, 2018

NBC Information falsely studies that President Trump praised Accomplice Basic Robert E. Lee. Really, Trump had praised the Union Basic Ulysses S. Grant.

61. Nov. 14, 2018

CNN’s Jeff Zeleny studies that President Trump has determined to fireside a deputy nationwide safety adviser upon the First Girl’s demand. The Wall Avenue Journal studies the adviser has been “escorted out” of the White Home. Later, it’s reported that neither case was true. “This didn’t occur. She continues to be right here on the WH,” a senior official advised the press. The adviser was reassigned to a different job.

62. Dec. 24, 2018

It’s found that just about every thing written by a Der Spiegel reporter, who had been honored by CNN, a couple of supposedly racist Trump stronghold city was fabricated–like a lot of his different work.

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63. Dec. 26, 2018

NBC studies that Trump was the primary President since 2002 to not go to the troops at Christmastime. However he (and First Girl Melania) did. NBC added a be aware to its story however left the false headline in place.

64. Jan. 1, 2019

CBS Information claimed, in June of 2018, that Trump spokesman Sarah Huckabee Sanders would retire by the tip of the 12 months. She didn’t. As of Might 2019, she was nonetheless on the job and there had been no correction or editor’s be aware. The identical CBS story additionally quoted sources as saying the departure of White Home assistant Raj Shah was additionally imminent. It wasn’t. Shah continued to serve seven extra months.

65. Jan. 9, 2019

The New York Occasions points a correction to a report that falsely acknowledged former Trump marketing campaign chairman Paul Manafort requested for marketing campaign polling to be given to a Russian oligarch, Oleg Deripaska, who has ties to Russia President Putin. As an alternative, the Occasions now claims, Manafort truly requested his affiliate Rick Gates to provide polling knowledge to Ukrainian oligarchs –not Deripaska.

Whereas working at Politico, one of many New York Occasions reporters, Ken Vogel, acquired caught sending drafts of tales to democratic officers. One other co-author, Maggie Haberman, was thought of a “pleasant” by Clinton marketing campaign officers who turned to her when she labored at Politico.

“We’ve had her tee up tales for us earlier than and have by no means been disenchanted. We are able to do probably the most shaping by going to Maggie,” wrote Clinton officers in emails.

66. Jan. 11, 2019

Fox TV affiliate in Seattle, Washington airs pretend, doctored video of President Trump that altered his face and made it seem as if he had caught his tongue out and in whereas giving an Oval Workplace handle.

67. Jan. 18, 2019

The Buzzfeed unique with nameless sources implicating Trump in doubtlessly prison habits (that Democrats and pundits stated can be the nail in Trump’s impeachment coffin) is refuted in a uncommon rebuke from Particular Counsel Mueller’s workplace. Buzzfeed stands by its reporting.

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68. Jan. 22, 2019

The New York Occasions and Washington Put up are among the many publications that subject corrections after falsely reporting that an anti-Trump activist had served within the Vietnam Struggle.

Moreover, a number of information staff, together with a CNN worker, apologize for mischaracterizing because the aggressors Trump-supporting youngsters at a pro-life rally.

69. Jan. 26, 2019

The UK Telegraph apologizes for all of the info it acquired flawed in a Jan. 19 article criticizing the First Girl.

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70. Feb. 18, 2019

Whereas some media shops responsibly reported and correctly attributed allegations within the racist assault alleged by actor Jussie Smollett, others didn’t. Some unskeptically furthered the narrative that Smollett, who’s black, was attacked by Trump-supporting racists who put a noose round Smollett’s neck, shouted racial slurs, advised him it’s “MAGA” (Make America Nice Once more) nation, and poured bleach on him. Whereas particulars are nonetheless rising as of this date, Chicago police have acknowledged that Smollett is not thought of a sufferer of the crimes he alleged. The New York Occasions receives particular point out right here for including a biased non sequitur in its early reporting that handled skepticism of Smollett’s story as if it had been unfounded, and slot in a dig at President Trump’s son.

However the lack of progress within the investigation has fueled hypothesis about whether or not the report was exaggerated. The president’s son Donald Trump Jr., who is thought to disseminate conspiracy theories on his Twitter feed, retweeted an article this week about Smollett declining to show over his cellphone to the police.

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Actor Jussie Smollett

71. Varied dates: Different faked assaults reported by the information as if confirmed

  1. Every week earlier than Trump was elected, Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church in Mississippi was torched and the phrases “Vote Trump” discovered painted on the skin. The mayor condemned the incident as a hate crime and acknowledged it was “an assault on the black church and the black neighborhood.” Nonetheless, police later arrested a black church member for the arson. They are saying the person staged the fireplace to appear like an assault by Trump supporters. Even right this moment, among the corrected information studies retain headlines seeming guilty Trump.
  2. The day after Trump was elected, an incident at Elon College in North Carolina made nationwide information. Hispanic college students discovered a “hateful be aware” written on a classroom whiteboard studying, “Bye Bye Latinos.” After the story made information, it was realized that the message was written by “a Latino pupil who was upset concerning the outcomes of the election.”
  3. Additionally the day after Trump was elected, a homosexual man — reportedly a filmmaker — claimed that homophobic Trump supporters smashed his face with a bottle outdoors a bar in Santa Monica, Calif. A bloody picture was posted on Twitter, and he was stated to have been handled at an area hospital. Police investigated the media studies. They stated no grievance was ever filed, there was no proof of against the law, and a test of native hospitals confirmed no sufferer in such an incident.
  4. The week after Trump’s election, a Muslim pupil on the College of Louisiana, Lafayette, claimed Trump supporters pulled off her head overlaying, and assaulted and robbed her. She later admitted fabricatingthe story.
  5. A month after Trump’s election, a Muslim-American lady claimed Trump supporters tried to steal her headwear and harassed her on the New York Metropolis subway. She in the end was arrested after confessing she made up the entire story.

72. Feb. 26, 2019

It’s nearly as good a day as any to level out that The Washington Put up and others reported final November that Trump was imminently about to fireside DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen. The Put up confirmed this with 5 nameless sources. The firing was stated to be more likely to occur the next week.

Nielsen remained on the job for 5 extra months earlier than resigning.

Homeland Safety Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen

73. Feb. 27, 2019

Testimony by former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen appeared to place the ultimate nail within the coffin of the “file” declare reported by many— that Cohen had visited Prague to satisfy with Russians to assist collude on Trump’s behalf. Cohen advised Congress he’s by no means been to Prague or the Czech Republic, for that matter. McClatchy even reported that Cohen’s cellular phone had pinged off Prague towers. The place did this apparently false info come from? “4 individuals spoke with McClatchy on situation of anonymity because of the sensitivity of knowledge shared by their international intelligence connections. Every obtained their info independently from international intelligence connections,” reported McClatchy.

Former Trump legal professional Michael Cohen

74. March 1, 2019

The Washington Put up deleted a tweet containing false reporting a couple of January 19 incident relating to a standoff between Trump-supporting pro-life Catholic highschool college students and a pro-choice Native American activist. The Put up wrongly acknowledged, with out attribution, that the activist had fought within the Vietnam Struggle. The activist additionally falsely acknowledged {that a} highschool pupil had blocked him and “wouldn’t permit him to retreat.” These occasions had been later known as into query, and the Washington Put up is being sued in a multi-million greenback libel swimsuit over its allegedly false reporting and misrepresentations. The Put up additionally posted an “editor’s be aware” on this date stating that “a extra full evaluation” of the incident contradicted or failed to verify accounts as initially reported, together with {that a} specific pupil was making an attempt to instigate a battle.

75. Varied dates

A number of reporters and media shops have supplied false info and/or quoted incorrect nameless sources as to the timing of the discharge of Particular Counsel Mueller’s report on Trump-Russia collusion. The Washington Put up stated it might be out in summer season of 2018. Bloomberg stated it might be shortly after the 2018 Midterm elections. In February 2019, CNN, The Washington Put up and NBC reported the report was coming the final week of February. Nonetheless, it was not introduced at the moment.

The discharge of the Mueller report in April 2019 belies numerous information tales over greater than two years. The report doesn’t discover collusion between Trump and Russia President Putin and in addition concludes there’s no proof that any American conspired or coordinated with any Russian. The various who claimed there was laborious proof of collusion in hand proved to be flawed, but there isn’t a document of media apologies and corrections on these factors.

Robert Mueller, former FBI Director, Particular Counsel investigating
alleged Trump-Russia collusion

76. Might 29, 2019

The Wall Avenue Journal studies the Navy used a “tarp” to cowl the identify of the united statesS. John S. McCain in order that President Trump wouldn’t see it on his latest go to to Yokosuka, Japan. (The late Sen. John McCain regularly attacked Trump and solid a deciding vote opposite to McCain’s marketing campaign promise to repeal Obamacare. Trump additionally attacked McCain and derided McCain’s efficiency as a soldier in Vietnam the place McCain was held as a Prisoner of Struggle.)

After the tarp information is reported, reporters quote McCain’s daughter attacking Trump as if he had given the orders to cowl the identify.

It’s additional reported that the united statesS. John McCain was saved out of Trump’s view, and that sailors carrying hats with the ship’s identify on it had been turned away and/or given the break day in order that Trump wouldn’t see the McCain identify.

Nonetheless, shortly after these information studies, key elements of the storyline started to crumble.

The one grain of reality gave the impression to be that, upfront of Trump’s journey, a army official despatched an electronic mail directing that the united statesS. McCain be saved from Trump’s view. Nonetheless, importantly, that course was not adopted. Additional, Trump and White Home aides indicated Trump performed no function and was unaware of the course.

Considerably, army officers acknowledged that it was unfaithful {that a} tarp was positioned over the ship’s identify to dam it from Trump’s view. They are saying it was the opposite method round: a tarp on the ship for upkeep was eliminated for Trump’s go to.

Additional, U.S. officers stated a paint barge in entrance of the united statesS. John S. McCain was ordered to be moved for Trump’s go to and was gone by the point he arrived.

The tarpaulin was used as a part of hull preservation work on the McCain and was eliminated on Saturday, two days earlier than Trump delivered a Memorial Day handle at U.S. Naval Base Yokosuka, the place the McCain was stationed. All ships remained in regular configuration throughout [the President’s go to.

Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for U.S. Pacific Fleet, to NBC Information

Although the principle parts of the Wall Avenue Journal story appeared to have been debunked, the New York Occasions’ Maggie Haberman oddly tweeted out a press release that the Occasions had confirmed the Wall Avenue Journal’s “glorious scoop.”

The principle a part of the story that the Occasions appeared to have confirmed was that unnamed White Home officers had been involved about Trump seeing the McCain identify and that sailors carrying ball caps that sported the ship’s insignia had been turned away.

Nonetheless, CBS Information identified that “it’s potential the explanation they had been turned away is that ball caps weren’t a part of the gown code for the occasion.”

U.S. officers stated about 800 sailors from greater than 20 ships and Navy instructions had been current for the president’s go to and “all wore the identical Navy hat that has no brand, somewhat than carrying particular person ship or command hats.”

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77. July 4, 2019

A number of information shops appeared to be victimized by a nasty case of wishful pondering after they reported that President Trump’s Fourth of July celebration didn’t draw crowds. One evaluation incorrectly claimed there have been “small crowds.”

The Guardian featured a photograph of an empty podium in Washington D.C. previous to the celebration and claimed the White Home was “struggling” to attract crowds.

Nonetheless, by any factual evaluation, the crowds had been, in actual fact, big. That’s despite the unhealthy climate.

78. January 2019

In January, New York Occasions, Vice and others reported on the “misplaced” immigrant kids of the Trump administration. Nonetheless, AP and different reality checks acknowledged this was a deceptive time period. Based on AP, the “misplaced” kids had been a matter of the federal government not having the ability to observe them as soon as positioned with sponsors. In some instances this was as a result of the sponsors– many within the U.S. illegally– wouldn’t reply to the federal government’s observe up telephone calls.

It’s not extremely uncommon to fail to maintain observe of many minors who got here unaccompanied to the border. Over the past 12 months of the Obama administration, HHS was capable of find 85 p.c of the minors or their sponsors, in keeping with an inspector normal’s report. The Trump administration barely exceeded that success fee within the final three months of 2017, at the same time as it’s accused of dropping kids.

Related Press reality test

79. July 13, 2019

In a narrative a couple of lawsuit alleging that candidate Trump forcibly kissed a marketing campaign employee, CNN failed to say that that lawsuit had been dismissed. It later corrected its story to incorporate the knowledge.

80. July 21, 2019

Many within the media uncritically report a Georgia State legislator’s racist and false declare {that a} “white” man at a grocery retailer advised her to “return the place you got here from.”

Media studies hyperlink the supposed hateful remark to President Trump as a result of Trump not too long ago stated a number of Democrats in Congress ought to “return and assist repair the completely damaged and crime infested locations from which they got here.”

Nonetheless, the next day, the legislator acknowledges the person didn’t say she ought to “return to your nation” or “return to the place you got here from,” as she initially claimed. She goes on to say she advised him to “go back.” The person provides he’s not white, however a Cuban and a Democrat.

I do know I advised him to ‘return.’

Rep. Erica Thomas, Georgia, a day after her authentic accusations

After the legislator modifications her story, the native information performs up the headline that the person “admits he swore,” somewhat than the much more vital acknowledgement that her main declare was false. (See round 2:05 within the video close to the tip of the story.)

Even after the legislator retracted her authentic accusation, it remained broadly revealed in nationwide headlines and information studies.

81. July 21, 2019

An MSNBC contributor and legislation professor falsely tweets that Fox shouldn’t be going to point out upcoming Congressional testimony by former Particular Counsel Robert Mueller on the Trump-Russia investigation. When the error is identified, the contributor says she was simply kidding and deletes her tweet–however not earlier than it has been “appreciated” and “retweeted” 1000’s of occasions.

82. Aug. 2019

A number of information shops together with CNN and MSNBC falsely reported that an unlawful immigrant had her nursing child ripped from her arms. The mom was not lactating, CNN later acknowledged.

83. Aug. 28, 2019

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell apologizes for and retracts nameless, unverified claims stating that Trump had loans with Russian co-signers. Finally view, it appeared that much more individuals had seen or remarked on the preliminary info than the apology.

The now-deleted authentic tweet by O’Donnell acknowledged: “A supply near Deutsche Financial institution says Trump’s tax returns present he pays little or no earnings tax and, extra importantly, that his loans have Russian co-signers. If true, that explains all types phrase Trump has ever stated about Russia and Putin.”

84. Aug. 28, 2019

Ken Dilinian of NBC Information corrects a false report he and others disseminated claiming that beginning October 29, “kids born to U.S. service members outdoors of the U.S. will not be mechanically thought of residents. Dad and mom should apply for citizenship for his or her the [sic] kids in these conditions.”

85. Sept. 7, 2019

CNN and practically each main media outlet criticized President Trump for tweeting that Alabama would probably be impacted by Hurricane Dorian. They claimed that was by no means the case. Nonetheless, Trump was right that a number of official hurricane advisories had put Alabama in a projected impacted space.

Look ahead to your self.

There is no such thing as a document of any corrections to those incorrect information tales. In reality, there are a number of observe ups repeating the false claims that Alabama was by no means in a projected path, and doubling down on the declare that Trump was inaccurate.

Somewhat than admit an error, some information shops skirted the problem, parsing possibilities, “would” vs. “may,” the Nationwide Climate Service vs. the Nationwide Hurricane Heart, and whether or not tropical storm pressure winds actually qualify as hurricane results.

(Above: Politico title)
(Above: New York Journal Intelligencer title)

86. Sept. 10, 2019

Citing nameless sources, CNN and the New York Occasions reported— and different media repeated– claims that the CIA needed to take away a prime U.S. spy from Russia in 2017 due to concern over President Trump’s dealing with of categorised info.

The CIA, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and the White Home strongly refuted the story. Different media, together with The New York Occasions and Washington Put up, additionally contradicted CNN and reported the choice to take away the spy occurred earlier than CNN stated it did and for various causes.

[CNN’s] reporting shouldn’t be solely incorrect, it has the potential to place lives at risk.

Stephanie Grisham, White Home press secretary

CNN’s narrative that the Central Intelligence Company makes life-or-death selections primarily based on something aside from goal evaluation and sound assortment is solely false…Misguided hypothesis that the President’s dealing with of our nation’s most delicate intelligence — which he has entry to 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 discuss issues like this fairly often — it is just the events that I feel put individuals in danger, when the reporting is so egregious as to create huge dangers to america of America, that I even remark the best way I simply did.

Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State

Not less than among the authentic tales remained posted a day later with out correction, clarification or updating to incorporate CIA’s refutation.

87. Sept. 16, 2019

The New York Occasions publishes an editor’s be aware about its latest story recounting a newly-reported accusation about an incident a long time in the past involving Trump-nominated Supreme Court docket Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

The editor’s be aware discloses for the primary time that the Occasions by no means spoke to the alleged sufferer, and that the alleged sufferer had advised associates she had no recollection of any such occasion. The Occasions reporters defined that that info had mistakenly been edited out of the story.

88. July 24, 2019

In testimony to Congress, particular counsel Robert Mueller places to remaining relaxation the widespread reporting in 2016 originating with Slate.com that claimed a Russian financial institution server had been illicitly speaking with Trump Tower. When requested about it by a member of Congress, Mueller replied that “my perception at this level is…not true.”

89. July 29, 2019

Vox.com’s Aaron Rupar tweeted that Trump prompt he was a “9/11 First Responder.” In reality, Trump acknowledged the other: “I’m not contemplating myself a primary responder.”

90. Sept. 25, 2019

The Washington Put up, quoting nameless sources, reported that President Trump’s Director of Nationwide Intelligence threatened to stop over an alleged whistleblower subject.

Each day Beast headline

Nonetheless, DNI Joseph Maguire points a press release indicating the Put up article was solely false. “At no time have I thought of resigning my place since assuming this function,” wrote Maguire in a press release.

91. Sept. 25, 2019

The Each day Beast and different media shops reported that President Trump requested the President of Ukraine to analyze former Vice President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, eight occasions in a single telephone name.

Each day Beast headline

Nonetheless, the launched transcript notes reveal Trump talked about Biden’s son (not by identify) one time. Nonetheless, many within the media claimed the “eight occasions” allegation was actually true as a result of they counted every phrase through which Trump referred to potential corruption or the necessity for some type of investigation.

(There are different areas of potential mistaken reporting relating to the identical telephone name, however they’re typically topic to interpretation.)

92. Sept. 29, 2019

CBS Information’s 60 Minutes studies “the federal government whistleblower who set off the impeachment inquiry of President Trump is beneath federal safety as a result of they worry for his or her security.”

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

93. Sept. 30, 2019

When a black lady claims white boys at college held her down, minimize off her hair and known as her “nappy” and “ugly,” the story makes nationwide information. A number of information shops improperly report some particulars as if they’re established as true, with out correct attribution. For instance, NBC writes, “The assault occurred Monday…” and “The second boy grabbed her arms, whereas the third minimize off a few of her dreadlocks.” A neighborhood NBC affiliate writes: “…she was at recess and about to go down a slide when one of many boys grabbed her and put a hand over her mouth. One other boy grabbed her arms. A 3rd boy minimize off a few of her hair.” CBS writes, “The incident befell…” (as if an incident had been factually established somewhat than was an allegation).

Many information studies additionally join the assault to President Trump’s Vice President, Mike Pence, by stating that the “assault” occurred at “a Christian college in Virginia the place Vice President Mike Pence’s spouse works.”

Nonetheless, it turns on the market was no assault or “incident.” Three days after the preliminary studies, the kid’s household reported the entire story was made up, they usually apologized.

94. Oct. 13, 2019

ABC airs video purportedly displaying a “slaughter” and “horrific report of atrocities” in opposition to Kurds by Turkey after President Trump withdrew U.S. troops. (The video is allegedly not combat video in any respect.)

95. Oct. 16, 2019

Many main information shops together with Yahoo, USA At the moment, Roll Name, NBC, ABC and Fox quotes President Trump as saying Turkey’s invasion of Syria “shouldn’t be our drawback.” In a subsequent correction, NBC and others stated, Trump truly stated “it’s not our border.” Nonetheless, hours after NBC’s correction, the preliminary allegedly false quote stays on Yahoo, USA At the moment, Fox, Roll Name, the Washington Occasions and different information websites.

96. Solar. Oct. 27, 2019

A number of media claims state that President Trump was {golfing} through the U.S. raid in Syria that captured the top of the Islamic terrorist group ISIS, al-Baghdadi; and {that a} White Home state of affairs room picture had been “staged.” It seems, in keeping with later studies, that Trump had completed {golfing} and was on the White Home through the operation. (Obama White Home photographer Pete Souza had apparently initially tweeted out incorrect info on timing.)

97. Nov. 16, 2019

Rampant hypothesis ensues after a contributor to The Hill claims  President Trump visited Walter Reed Nationwide Medical Heart as a consequence of chest discomfort. A White Home assertion from Trump’s doctor issued two days later acknowledged that was not the case.

“Regardless of among the hypothesis, the President has not had any chest ache, nor was he evaluated or handled or any pressing or acute points. Particularly, he didn’t bear any specialised cardiac or neurologic evaluations,” the president’s doctor acknowledged.

98. Nov. 19, 2019

London’s Each day Mail posts a sensational headline through the impeachment hearings in opposition to President Trump. It claims {that a} key witness, Ambassador Kurt Volker, had “walked again” his testimony in a method that was detrimental to Trump. When Volker was requested, in actual time on the listening to, if the Each day Mail headline was right and he had, certainly, modified his testimony, Volker acknowledged that no. The headline was flawed.

99. Nov. 19, 2019

Agence France Press publishes a sensational story saying that greater than 100,000 kids are being held in migration-related detention within the U.S. beneath President Trump. It seems that was the quantity in 2015 beneath President Obama.

100. Nov. 28, 2019

Newsweek falsely studies that President Trump is spending Thanksgiving {golfing} in Florida at his Mar-a-Lago Resort. He was truly in Afghanistan serving dinner to U.S. troops. It’s the second 12 months in a row that nationwide media makes the identical mistake. (The reporter, Jessica Kwong, was reportedly later fired.)

101. Nov. 24, 2019

It seems the identical Newsweek reporter, Kwong, reported an allegedly deceptive story the week earlier than about President Trump’s tipping implying he’d been low-cost.

Newsweek later up to date the story to take away the headline reference to a “skinny stack of money” and embrace that it was 100 greenback payments, and above and past what Trump had already tipped the servers.

102. Dec. 3, 2019

(Allegation) Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) recordsdata a $435 million defamation lawsuit in opposition to CNN over a Nov. 23 CNN story that claimed Nunes had flown to Vienna, Austria in December 2018 to satisfy with a former Ukrainian prosecutor in to dig up dust on Joe Biden and his son, Hunter.

Nunes says on the time CNN claimed he was in Vienna, he was truly in Benghazi, Libya and Malta for conferences; and Nunes produced images he says proves that. Moreover, he says he has by no means met with the named former Ukrainian prosecutor in Vienna or anyplace else.

(If proof in the end reveals CNN was right and Nunes is wrong, this put up can be up to date and faraway from the rely.)

103. Dec. 9, 2019

It might be tough if not inconceivable from a sensible standpoint to checklist the 1000’s of the media studies, from the New York Occasions to CNN, which have now been confirmed false by info documented in Justice Division Inspector Basic Michael Horowitz’s report on the FBI’s misbehavior in investigating the Trump marketing campaign.

Right here, they’ll all be grouped collectively as one media mistake, however embrace practically each main nationwide media outlet that falsely reported, as if reality, that the discredited Democrat-funded “file” — submitted by the FBI to get a wiretap to spy on Trump affiliate Carter Web page — was solely a “small half” of the wiretap software. Additionally, the studies that Web page was a Russian spy and the conduit between Trump and Putin. Additionally, the various insistences that Trump was a “Putin stooge” and coordinating with Putin or Russia, when the FBI’s personal proof now reveals they by no means discovered something remotely near that. In reality, they appeared to disprove it.

104. Jan. 31, 2018

(Out of chronological order as a result of it simply got here to my consideration.)

Media studies in Dec. 2017 claimed the Trump administration banned officers on the US Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention from utilizing seven phrases.

In response, docs posted images of themselves with tape over their mouths.

It seems paperwork confirmed there was “not a ban or prohibition on phrases however somewhat solutions on the right way to enhance the possibilities of getting funding.”

105. Dec. 25, 2019

(Allegation) An unusually unequivocal denial of a Wall Avenue Journal report come from the Trump administration. Trump officers say the anonymously-sourced report is “complete false, unfaithful and baseless. It didn’t occur.”

If info involves gentle that proves the Wall Avenue Journal supply was correct on the time, this put up can be up to date to mirror that.

106. Dec. 16, 2019

The information media broadly misreport that the report by Dept. of Justice Inspector Basic Horowitz discovered “no political bias” within the Russia probe. As Horowitz made clear in his Congressional testimony, that’s false.

As an alternative, Horowitz gave a restricted, certified opinion a couple of slim a part of the opening of the investigation, stating he couldn’t discover documentary or testimonial proof that the intense political bias of assorted FBI officers impacted the unique choice to open the probe into Trump campaign-related Individuals.

Horowitz explicitly acknowledged that varied FBI officers concerned within the probe, together with Peter Strzok and Lisa Web page had political bias in opposition to Trump.

He additionally acknowledged, in Congressional testimony, that Christopher Steele, the political opposition researcher employed by the Clinton marketing campaign to offer the anti-Trump “file” to the FBI, had political bias.

And he acknowledged that it’s potential political bias was behind different inexplicable and egregious errors the FBI made through the probe, which he didn’t say was freed from bias. These issues, Horowitz testified, have been referred to the prison probe and to the FBI to deal with.

107. Aug. 5, 2019

(Out of chronological order as a result of it simply got here to my consideration.)

MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace falsely claims that President Trump had talked about “exterminating Latinos.” She apologized the following day.

108. Jan. 9, 2019

(Out of chronological order as a result of it simply got here to my consideration.)

Ken Vogel of the New York Occasions corrects a narrative that falsely claimed Trump adviser Paul Manafort had needed to share polling knowledge with a Russian oligarch near President Putin.

109. Dec. 27, 2019

The New York Occasions corrects a report it revealed to exhibit how individuals who voted for Donald Trump not assist him. Their featured instance was a person who– it seems– by no means voted for Trump within the first place.

110. Jan. 7, 2020

MSNBC wrongly studies as much as 30 U.S. deaths after an Iranian rocket assault. In reality, no Individuals had been killed. The quantity was a fabricated quantity reported by the Iranians.

111. Jan. 16, 2020

MSNBC’s John Brennan, former CIA Director, falsely studies that Trump personally wrote a be aware relating to wanting Ukraine’s president to announce an investigation into potential corruption associated to the previous vice chairman and his son.

Thanks to the 1000’s who’re supporting the landmark case of Attkisson v. DOJ and FBI for the federal government laptop intrusions.

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