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 honour.
The Pulitzer Board’s’response’ regarding 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 had left, according to the former president.
Two independent investigations were ordered by the Pulitzer Prize Board, and they concluded that the prize was given out correctly.
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 scandal and had concluded that the reporting was reliable.
The board said in a statement that “the various reviews converged in their conclusions: that no passages or headlines, contentions or assertions in any of the winning submissions were discredited by facts that emerged after the prizes were conferred.”
According to the Pulitzer website, ten journalists from both publications received the honour “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.”
On Monday, Trump phoned Hannity to express his dissatisfaction with the board’s finding.
The Pulitzer Board is providing cover for the biggest reporting blunder in modern history: the fake Russia Russia Russia collusion hoax, rather than acting honourably 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 false reporting is being protected and recognised by the Pulitzer Prize, which once had actual 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 get a possible Pulitzer Prize would be in a new category—disinformation, for helping to perpetuate a false story created 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 favour of the former president.
The former G-man, however, did not discover any proof of the alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians.
The truth, according to Trump, is that the 2018 Pulitzer Prize was given for reporting that merely 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.