Donald Trump Tweet Trashes NBC News After Scoop Correction
May 4, 2018
Donald Trump Tweet Trashes NBC News After Scoop Correction
President Donald Trump this morning crowed over a correction NBC News issued Thursday night.
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“NBC NEWS is wrong again!” Trump tweeted as the sun came up. The news division corrected its scoop that investigators had wiretapped Cohen’s phone lines. The tapping took place before the FBI raided the office, home and hotel room of Cohen, who has claimed he made a $130K NDA payment to porn star Stormy Daniels shortly before the election, to keep quiet her claims of a decade-old affair with Trump.
After the initial report, Trump’s new lawyer Rudy Giuliani reacted dubiously, while Stormy’s lawyer Michael Avenatti took a victory lap on MSNBC, saying Trump is so undisciplined that “any number of things” might have been found via tapping between POTUS and Cohen.
Hours later, NBC News issued a correction, reporting Cohen’s phones were not tapped, citing three senior officials. Feds reportedly were logging phone numbers and internet addresses contacted by Cohen’s devices.
“NBC NEWS is wrong again!” Trump crowed. “They cite ‘sources’ which are constantly wrong. Problem is, like so many others, the sources probably don’t exist, they are fabricated, fiction! NBC, my former home with the Apprentice, is now as bad as Fake News CNN. Sad!”
Trump’s tweet:
NBC NEWS is wrong again! They cite “sources” which are constantly wrong. Problem is, like so many others, the sources probably don’t exist, they are fabricated, fiction! NBC, my former home with the Apprentice, is now as bad as Fake News CNN. Sad!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 4, 2018