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Spicer Just Insulted Pulitzer-Winning Journalists. Their Response is EPIC
Earlier today, ProPublica reported that President Donald Trump altered his financial trust on February 10, a month after announcing that he had isolated himself from his interests, to allow secret withdrawals any time he wants.
Asked about the revelation today at the White House daily briefing, Press Secretary Sean Spicer predictably dismissed the news.
“Just because a left-wing blog makes the point of something changing doesn’t mean it actually happened,” Spicer said. “I’m not aware that there was ever a change in the trust. And the idea that the President is withdrawing money at some point is exactly the purpose of what the trust, why a trust is set up, regardless of an individual.”
Among the many problems with Spicer’s statement, including that the President did change the trust, is the fact that ProPublica is by no one’s definition “a left-wing blog.” To the contrary, the decade-old journalistic giant is one of the nation’s best regarded investigative news sources and winner of three Pulitzer Prizes.
ProPublica swung back at Spicer and his boss along with their loose relationship to the truth, tweeting out a string of facts that the White House would rather people not talk about.
The thread is more than a perfect smackdown of Spicer’s strategy of schoolyard insults, it provides a great shorthand for the secrets and lies being perpetrated by the Trump regime. Every American should read through these tweets, if nothing else, for a reminder of the intense dishonesty at the highest reaches of our federal government.
1/ So @seanspicer just called us a “left-wing blog.” Since we’re actually in the biz of facts, we figured we’d respond w/ a few...
.@seanspicer 2/ @seanspicer was trying to knock our story that Trump’s trust doc was revised to say he can take $ frm biz anytimepropub.li/2ouRDkC
.@seanspicer 3/ @seanspicer said he’s “not aware of any change in the trust.” And he then said this: youtu.be/yCtqiyyy5JUpic.twitter.com/lrQpWkZjKh
.@seanspicer 4/ The Trump trust doc was revised & signed Feb. 10. Here you go, @seanspicer:documentcloud.org/documents/3525…pic.twitter.com/9odXRrFEjV
.@seanspicer 5/ We do no-surprises journalism. We told the Trump Org & WH what we knew and gave them time to explain.They didn’t. propub.li/2nxumcRpic.twitter.com/paZfZWr4W1
.@seanspicer 6/ What we do is hold people in power accountable, no matter who they are, or what names they call us. We do it with facts. Like...
.@seanspicer 7/ The fact that Tom Price bought drug company stock same day he pushed policy that could help the company.propub.li/2ouugrw
.@seanspicer 8/ The fact that Trump has quietly installed officials across the government to be his eyes and ears: propub.li/2ouJCft
.@seanspicer 9/ The fact that Jared Kushner isn’t actually separating himself from his business empire: propub.li/2nxakPR
.@seanspicer 10/ Or the fact that 5 top Trump officials have made false statements to Congress:propub.li/2ouRtK2
.@seanspicer 11/ And yes, our job always has been and will be holding *all* those in power accountable.
.@seanspicer 12/ So, we wrote about fact that Obama caved to big banks and didn’t deliver on his promises to help homeowners:propub.li/2ouKKQs
.@seanspicer 13/ We wrote about former Obama officials lobbying to push through a merger that could make flying more miserable: propub.li/2ouTAhh
.@seanspicer 14/ And wrote about how Obama was falling short on his own promises to grant pardons. propub.li/2ouNNrE
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