A Washington Post reporter has apologized for and deleted a tweet in which she falsely claimed President Trump called the coronavirus a “hoax” during a recent campaign rally.
“My apologies for quoting the president out of context,” said Amber Phillips, a reporter for the Post’s “The Fix” political blogging team. “As The Washington Post’s Fact Checker makes clear, he called Democrats politicizing coronavirus a hoax. I have deleted the incorrect tweet.”…
“The full quote shows Trump is criticizing Democratic talking points and the media’s coverage of his administration’s response to coronavirus,” the fact check reads. “He never says that the virus itself is a hoax, and although the Biden camp included the word “their,” the edit does not make clear to whom or what Trump is referring.”
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