NPR Gets Called Out For COMPLETE BS Story About Don Jr.

I’ve always known NPR is SUPER lib… but they didn’t seem as maliciously misleading as say… CNN.

Well… now there’s this:

NEW: Donald Trump Jr. testified to Congress that the Trump Organization’s negotiations to develop a Trump Tower Moscow ended at the end of 2014.

But that conflicts with Michael Cohen, who said in a guilty plea the negotiations continued well into 2016. https://t.co/xoJftN5MQb

— NPR Politics (@nprpolitics) November 30, 2018

Here’s the thing…THAT’S NOT TRUE.

This entire story is a lie. Trump, Jr. was explicitly asked whether the Trump Organization was pursuing a plan to develop a Trump Tower in Moscow in 2016. His answer: “Yes.” He even offered to give the 2015 LOI signed by Trump to Judiciary investigators. https://t.co/omMSmse5rs

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) November 30, 2018

What in the actual HELL, NPR?!

No… really. This is a LIE.

You don’t have to take my word for it. Here’s the actual transcript, which @nprpolitics conveniently didn’t include. pic.twitter.com/gcEouly8OV

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) November 30, 2018

But it gets even worse for @nprpolitics here. They lied about the question which @DonaldJTrumpJr was responding to when he said “Certainly not ’16.” The actual question was if he knew whether the Emin and Aras Agalarov were trying to build a Trump Tower at that time. pic.twitter.com/cMnLyiPdXj

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) November 30, 2018

If @nprpolitics has any journalistic integrity, it will retract this entire piece, which is based on a blatant mischaracterization of @DonaldJTrumpJr‘s testimony. He explicitly told Judiciary that Cohen/Sater were trying to broker a deal in 2015/2016. https://t.co/1L52RvGz9J

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) November 30, 2018

And yet… HOURS LATER… It remains. People are sharing it. People are freaking out over it. ALL OVER A LIE.

A former CIA chief of operations retweeting a former NSA lawyer who is touting a fake story about Trump Jr.’s testimony. Hope these analytical failures weren’t common in their previous work. pic.twitter.com/cPrCZyAXyK

— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) November 30, 2018

UGH UGH UUUGH.

That NPR story about Don Jr. is still being shared.

And it’s still not accurate.

— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) November 30, 2018

The DID attempt a sort-of correction. AND IT’S STILL WRONG.

The article’s “update” is not good. Trump Jr. was clearly referring to *a particular deal* as having “died of deal fatigue” — and it’s not the Cohen deal.

The fifth paragraph below is the important paragraph, which undercuts the existing headline. pic.twitter.com/Qt8Gkyx13g

— Philip Bump (@pbump) November 30, 2018

This is all so stupid.