Trump is upset with WP for showing small crowd pic. @daveWeigel has apologized....

[riversedge]

Maggie Haberman?Verified account @maggieNYT
26m26 minutes ago

Maggie Haberman Retweeted Brit Hume

And apologized as Trump demanded. And then Trump said that’s not enough. Almost feels like wanting the apology wasn’t the point.

Maggie Haberman added,
Brit Hume
Verified account @brithume
Weigel has now acknowledged that Trump is right about this.

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Ari Berman?Verified account @AriBerman
12m12 minutes ago

Ari Berman Retweeted Donald J. Trump

Attacking the press like this is how dictatorships start

Ari Berman added,
Donald J. Trump
Verified account @realDonaldTrump

.@daveweigel of the Washington Post just admitted that his picture was a FAKE (fraud?) showing an almost empty arena last night for my speech in Pensacola when, in fact, he knew the arena was packed (as shown also on T.V.). FAKE NEWS, he should be fired.
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Amy Siskind?Verified account @Amy_Siskind
48m48 minutes ago

Amy Siskind Retweeted Donald J. Trump

Don’t you have anything better to do with your time @realDonaldTrump like watching reruns of Fox & Friends or something? You’re such an embarrassment to our great country. RESIGN!!!

Amy Siskind added,
Donald J. Trump
Verified account @realDonaldTrump
.@DaveWeigel @WashingtonPost put out a phony photo of an empty arena hours before I arrived @ the venue, w/ thousands of people outside, on their way in. Real photos now shown as I spoke. Packed house, many people…
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[Kirk Lover]

1. Trashbag is allowed to say 'he should be fired'...??? WTF here.

[riversedge]

3. Trumps ego is being for fragile each day.

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. Aw, *uck him. He isn't worth responding to.

Jesus H......

[BannonsLiver]

4. Fuck trump but this shit shouldnt be happening.

I saw the tweet last night and thought it was real. Making shit up just feeds into his crazy narrative about the media. Like when ABC fucked up after the Flynn indictment. It pisses me off to no end.

[riversedge]

6. I wish Dave had not posted it as it just gives trump and his vile fans fodder. Not good.

[enough]

5. Stupid move on Weigel's part. I was stupid enough to think the Washington Post

reporter put out a photo that actually conveyed some useful information. So I believed that very few people had turned up for Trump. Turns out that was wrong. Misinforming the public doesn't do anybody any good.

[greeny2323]

7. Why do these journalists keep fucking up?

They are arming fascism with their stupid mistakes!

[Blue_Adept]

9. do you not remember the 8 years prior to this where journalists were continually wrong

about a great many things? This is not a new thing.

[MousePlayingDaffodil]

16. You're right . . .

It's almost impossible to overstate how dimwitted and incompetent many, many reporters are. The "journalism" profession attracts more than its fair share of low-wattage intellects for whom basic competence is a challenge.

[Blue_Adept]

17. They spent Obama's presidency being stenographers for conservative attacks

The problem is that there's now enough conservative media out there on the web (Breitbart, et al) that they're not needed. So they're still trying to please their former masters and failing, not realizing just how badly they're being used at the same time.

[MoonRiver]

8. Demented old fool

[marylandblue]

10. Journalists screw up all the time. Always have, always will.

Trump lies and makes mistake 100x more than the entire mainstream media put together (Fox excepted), yet he points out every teeny tiny error they make.

Don't play his game. The media eill never be perfect enough for Trump. He just wants you to think they have tp be perfect so you don't notice his own mistakes.

[oberliner]

11. Weigel should not have posted that picture

It was obviously not an accurate representation of the event.

[riversedge]

12. Weigel tweeted that it was on his personal account, (not story for WP).....

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Dave Weigel?Verified account @daveweigel
2h2 hours ago

Dave Weigel Retweeted Alex Wu

It was a bad tweet on my personal account, not a story for Washington Post. I deleted it after like 20 minutes. Very fair to call me out.

Everything I say on Twitter is a joke, except what I say about @swin24.

Dave Weigel added,
Alex Wu
@sffrog25
Replying to @daveweigel @dmartosko
How many seconds did you spend on verifying your story before you post it?
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[MousePlayingDaffodil]

19. In other words, Weigel is a gutless weasel . . .

. . . as well as a poor reporter. What's with this "my personal account" dodge? He posted the thing to Twitter under his own name. Why shouldn't someone assume that he was operating in his capacity as a reporter? That he even spews out this "defense" tells you something about this guy's character.

And it's supposed to be understood as a "joke"? What part of it was the part that we're supposed to think is, um, funny?

Low-wattage dope.

[Comatose Sphagetti]

13. It serves no one well for a journalist to attempt to skew a story.

That goes for the right as well as the left.

[Leghorn21]

21. Totally. It's so easy to verify, why the fuck did this guy do that?!? I take ALL these

photos with a grain of salt (like the Christmas tree lighting thing) - who knows if photos were taken 3 hours before the event? Not me.

WHY would this Dave guy DO this?!? What purpose does it serve to post bogus shit like this?!?!?

Such needless dumbfuckery, honest to God, is just beyond my comprehension. Jfc - it feels like a very deliberate act, designed to create yet MORE distrust and chaos. Goddamit, man.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrr

[Comatose Sphagetti]

23. Agreed.

I took the earlier photos as possibly misrepresenting the event when I first saw them, and was astonished at all of the people acting as if they were factual without doing any research.
I like to think progressive journalists are much better at factual reporting, that we who consume the reports don't have to do our own research on every damn story. But we do, and it pisses me off that I have to take EVERYTHING with a grain of salt.

[Leghorn21]

24. Agreed, Sphagetti, of course!!! We are already on saline overload (I made that up, no doubt

there's an official medical term for this condition) - so this is just too, too much for our overwhelmed systems, cheezus-

I just read this Dave guy's tweet that says stuff he posts is or might be a joke or something, I don't even want to go look at it again - he's posting sloppy, amateur, idiotic horseshit at a time when some people wear T-shirts saying, " Journalist. Rope. Tree.", ffs, and Dave is making pointless, VERY unfunny "jokes"?

Well, just more arrrgghh from here, my friend!!

[SeaDoo77]

14. Look At All The Racist Traitors

Waiting for the lying shit show.

[roamer65]

15. I have a dare for Chicken shit Don.

Go to CA and have one of these stupid pep rallies.

[superpatriotman]

18. This type of 'wit' dishonors our side

It is irritating and unnecessary.

There are thousands of reasons to mistrust .45, having a journo lying gives them ammo to discredit all of them.

Stupid.

[sarcasmo]

20. Dictator Don, once the press submits our country is over.

[Kaleva]

22. And so many DUers fell for it.