Trump Team Denies Report On National Guard, Then Admits It Was Based On A Real Document
MEDIA 02/17/2017 03:29 pm ET | Updated 17 hours ago
Trump Team Denies Report On National Guard, Then Admits It Was Based On A Real Document
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-administration-associated-press-national-guard_us_58a73fa6e4b045cd34c15611?
The leak was real, but the reporting on it was false, according to the administration.
By Michael Calderon
President Donald Trumps administration labeled The Associated Presss reporting on a leak 100 percent false on Friday morning, only to acknowledge less than an hour later that the story was based on a real document.
The administrations response mimicked Trumps remark a day earlier that even if leaks coming out of the government are real, the news is fake. And it also fit into what appears to be a pattern of ignoring reporters requests for comment, only to push back quickly after stories are published.
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The White House and Department of Homeland Security failed to respond to the APs requests for comment prior to publication, the news organization noted. But immediately after the AP published its explosive story, the White House and DHS denied it.....................................................................................
Not true, Michael Short, a senior assistant to White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, tweeted at 10:26 a.m. A DHS spokeswoman said it was not true 10 minutes later. .................................