President Donald Trump is disputing a quote attributed to him during a newspaper interview about relations with North Korea’s leader.
The Wall Street Journal on Thursday quoted Trump as saying: “I probably have a very good relationship with Kim Jong Un.”
Trump tweeted Sunday: “The Wall Street Journal stated falsely that I said to them ‘I have a good relationship with Kim Jong Un’ (of N. Korea). Obviously I didn’t say that. I said ‘I’d have a good relationship with Kim Jong Un,’ a big difference. Fortunately we now record conversations with reporters and they knew exactly what I said and meant. They just wanted a story. FAKE NEWS!”
The Wall Street Journal stated falsely that I said to them �I have a good relationship with Kim Jong Un� (of N. Korea). Obviously I didn�t say that. I said �I�d have a good relationship with Kim Jong Un,� a big difference. Fortunately we now record conversations with reporters…
� Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 14, 2018
…and they knew exactly what I said and meant. They just wanted a story. FAKE NEWS!
� Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 14, 2018
So much Fake News is being reported. They don�t even try to get it right, or correct it when they are wrong. They promote the Fake Book of a mentally deranged author, who knowingly writes false information. The Mainstream Media is crazed that WE won the election!
� Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 13, 2018
White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders and the newspaper have released separate audio clips.
The Wall Street Journal says it stands by its reporting.
� Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) January 13, 2018
Here is the official audio showing WSJ misquoting @POTUS pic.twitter.com/wVwoafYkHg
� Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) January 14, 2018
We first contacted the WSJ Friday morning and asked for a correction. They repeatedly refused to issue one despite clear audio evidence they’d misquoted POTUS. https://t.co/yauftW3qDQ
� Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) January 14, 2018
listening to @yashar�s slowed-down version of Trump�s WSJ interview it does sound like he said I�d, not I.
� Sam Stein (@samstein) January 14, 2018
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Listen to the Audio, he totally said I�d!
This is so FAKE FONNY!!!!
Everyone there knew what he was saying and yet they made up a stupid story about it!!!
The media has totally lost any integrity it had left!
…and yet the tech companies like Google, etc. define fake news as conspiracy theories, such as a website about the moon landing being fake and so forth. I don’t know what’s so hard to understand for them.
I heard “I”, not “I’d”. And if the president said “I’d”, then he failed to complete his sentence. If he intended to say he “would” have a good relationship with Kim Jung-un”, he would have added something at the end, e.g., “I’d have a good relationship with Kim Jung-un if we could have a candid discussion about chocolate cake.”
This is the M.O. of the left: repeat a lie many times till people believe it, and then try to make Trump look like a fool when he denies it. Fortunately people are not that stupid and are starting to see through this wall of lies.