Trump Boasts of ‘Historical Results’ List Published in the Washington Examiner…That His Own Team Wrote by Tamar Auber
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump lauded the Washington Examinerfor publishing a list of the Trump administration’s 205 historic results.
“Washington Examiner – ‘MAGA list: 205 ‘historic results’ help Trump make case for 2020 re-election.’ True!” Trump wrote, quoting the headline.
Washington Examiner – “MAGA list: 205 ‘historic results’ help Trump make case for 2020 re-election.” True!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 1, 2019
Yet, as the Toronto Star’s Daniel Dale notably noticed, that list of accomplishments actually came directly from Trump’s own team, who provided the Examiner an “exclusive.”
Great moments in media: Trump's team gives the Washington Examiner an "exclusive" list of 205 supposed "historic" accomplishments he will campaign on; the Examiner just publishes it in full; Trump tweets about it as if it came from the Examiner. pic.twitter.com/4xa1t9Gt6l
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 1, 2019
And, in fact, had Trump read down a few paragraphs below the bold headline print, that fact was clearly written the article itself, which was published on New Year’s Eve.
It is also not the first time that the Washington Examiner has published the White House’s list of Trump’s self-drafted results.
Back in October, the Examiner published a list of 289 accomplishmentsof “relentless, promise-keeping.”
That list was also apparently provided to the Examiner by the Trump administration.
[Mediaite]