After the Pulitzer Prize Board declined his request to revoke the 2018 awards it gave to The New York Times and the Washington Post for their coverage of Russian meddling in the presidential election, the former president Donald Trump reacted angrily.
The former head of state argued to Sean Hannity of Fox News that allowing the journals to preserve their awards damaged the reputation of America’s greatest journalism honor.
The Pulitzer Board’s’response’ about the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, which was given to The New York Times and The Washington Post for blatant fake news, has destroyed any credibility it has left, according to the former president.
The award committee claimed that, at his request, it had ordered two separate and independent reviews of the two newspapers’ reporting on the infamous Russiagate controversy and had concluded that the reporting was reliable.
The board said in a statement that “the various reviews agreed in their conclusions: that no passages or headlines, contentions or assertions in any of the winning submissions were undermined by facts that emerged after the prizes were conferred.”
In 2021, Trump requested that the board look into the two newspapers’ reportage on the alleged Russian interference by his campaign in the 2016 election.
According to the Pulitzer website, ten journalists from both publications received the honor “for deeply researched, relentlessly reported coverage in the public interest that dramatically advanced the country’s understanding of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and its connections to the Trump campaign, the president-transition elect’s team, and his eventual administration.”
In his letter asking the board to evaluate the articles, the former president, however, cast doubt on the reporting, calling it “a politically-motivated farce.”
On Monday, Trump phoned Hannity to express his dissatisfaction with the board’s finding.
The Pulitzer Board is providing cover for the largest reporting blunder in modern history: the bogus Russia Russia Russia collusion fabrication, rather than doing honorably and being transparent.
Why would The Washington Post or The New York Times want to ever acknowledge their clear errors and make amends when their fraudulent reporting is being protected and recognized by the Pulitzer Prize, which formerly had true weight?
The former president suggested that these publications “should hand back their prizes without notification from Pulitzer,” calling it the right thing to do.
“The only way The New York Times and The Washington Post should earn a possible Pulitzer Prize would be in a new category—disinformation, for helping to perpetuate a fake story fabricated and peddled by Crooked Hillary Clinton, the DNC, and some lowlife Democrats,” the author writes.
After nearly two years of investigation into the relationship between the 2016 Trump campaign and the Russian government, former FBI director Robert Mueller came to the conclusion that the Eastern European nation attempted to sway the election in favor of the former president.
The former G-man, however, did not discover any proof of the claimed collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians.
The truth, according to Trump, is that the 2018 Pulitzer Prize was given for reporting that essentially repeated political misinformation, which was, as we are aware, created by foreign operatives and my political adversaries.
“The Pulitzer Board should just say so if the Pulitzer Prize has evolved into a transparent endorsement of bogus, leftist political propaganda.
“Instead, they cover the results of their purported “independent investigations” in secrecy, preventing the general people from learning the truth.
I’ll keep trying my hardest to make up for the harm the 2018 Pulitzer Prize inflicted.
‘We’re proud of our Pulitzer-prize winning reporting on Russia intervention in the 2016 U.S. election,’ the New York Times tweeted.
Each mentioned New York Times article has turned out to be true.