Washington Post corrects report on Trump call to Georgia

• The Washington Post has issued a correction in an article that reported on former President Donald Trump’s December phone call with a Georgia election officer.
• The paper admitted that it had “misquoted” Trump following a release of the audio recording of the said call.
• The original article has since been “corrected to remove quotes misattributed to Trump.”

The Washington Post has issued a correction on their December article about former President Donald Trump calling Georgia’s top elections investigator “to find the fraud,” admitting that it had “misquoted” his remarks.

The correction, which was inserted on top of the since-updated article on Thursday, read: “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.”

It continued, “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.’”

“The headline and text of this story have been corrected to remove quotes misattributed to Trump,” it concluded.

A shorter version of the correction was also inserted on top of a Friday article about an Atlanta-area prosecutor’s criminal investigation into attempts to overturn the state’s election results in 2020, citing Trump’s phone calls to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Gov. Brian Kemp.

The audio recording of the six-minute call between Trump and election official Frances Watson was released by The Wall Street Journal on Thursday.

Trump can be heard in the Dec. 23 call claiming his Georgia victory despite the announced results. He then told Watson that “something bad happened,” suggesting that she check the results in Fulton County, which includes most of Atlanta. He added, “When the right answer comes out, you’ll be praised.”

Watson then replied, “I can assure you that our team and the [Georgia Bureau of Investigation], that we are only interested in the truth and finding the information that is based on the facts.”

President Joe Biden won by about 12,000 votes in Georgia, a victory that was certified after two recounts.

Source: New York Post