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Washington Post Outs Source Who Gave Them Fake Quotes From Trump, Georgia Phone Call; Source Defends Herself

Ashe Schow
Washington Post Outs Source Who Gave Them Fake Quotes From Trump, Georgia Phone Call; Source Defends Herself
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Following The Washington Post’s lengthy correction added to a January 9 article claiming then-President Donald Trump pressured a Georgia election investigator to “find the fraud” and that she would be a “national hero” if she did so, the Post outed the source that fed them the false quotes.

On Tuesday, the Post’s media critic, Erik Wemple, reported that the original story was “based on an account from Jordan Fuchs, the deputy secretary of state, whom Watson briefed on his comments.”

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