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Trump Attacks Washington Post for ‘Quoting Sources (Not Names)’

Donald Trump is known for quoting sources when boldly lying, if he cites them at all. As usual, he opted on Sunday to attack someone else for doing just that.
“The Washington Post is far more fiction than fact. Story after story is made up garbage – more like a poorly written novel than good reporting. Always quoting sources (not names), many of which don’t exist. Story on John Kelly isn’t true, just another hit job!
The Washington Post is far more fiction than fact. Story after story is made up garbage – more like a poorly written novel than good reporting. Always quoting sources (not names), many of which don’t exist. Story on John Kelly isn’t true, just another hit job!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 8, 2018
The president is referring to ‘When you lose that power,’ an article published Saturday by the Post that details how “John Kelly faded as White House disciplinarian.”
“After White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly pressured President Trump last fall to install his top deputy, Kirstjen Nielsen, atop the Department of Homeland Security, the president lost his temper when conservative allies argued that she wasn’t sufficiently hard line on immigration,” The Post reported. “‘You didn’t tell me she was a [expletive] George W. Bush person,’ Trump growled.”
“The recurring and escalating clashes between the president and his chief of staff trace the downward arc of Kelly’s eight months in the White House,” they continued. “Both his credibility and his influence have been severely diminished, administration officials said, a clear decline for the retired four-star Marine Corps general who arrived with a reputation for integrity and a mandate to bring order to a chaotic West Wing.”
As some Twitter users have pointed out:
Trump used to pretend to be a publicist when reporters called him.
He literally was a source that didn’t exist… https://t.co/AWprZsQJgj
— Remy Carreiro (@Remy_Anne) April 8, 2018
Reminder when Trump claims sources don’t exist: For many years he masqueraded as a publicist named John Barron or John Miller to boast about himself. https://t.co/Sc7hKfSMx9 pic.twitter.com/b7dI21syom
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) April 8, 2018
Wow. You’re a pot calling the kettle black when it comes to made up stories and not naming sources.
— Clark Alexander (@clarkalex) April 8, 2018
Like this credible source??!!!
GTFOH pic.twitter.com/eEgk8xiW5p— Rob Miller (@navyvetDC) April 8, 2018
Says the king of “credible sources”. What a joke.https://t.co/Rd6AGgs5fw
— Kevin Dague (@kdague70) April 8, 2018
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