Former President Trump on Friday lashed out at The Washington Post and The New York Times, demanding the Pulitzers won by the news outlets be revoked over their reporting on Russian interference into the 2016 presidential campaign
“These Pulitzer Prizes for totally incorrect reporting have become worthless and meaningless,” Trump said in a statement issued through his Save America PAC, shared by his Twitter spokesperson Liz Harrington on Friday.
The two newspapers received the 2018 Pulitzer Prize award in national reporting for their investigations into his 2016 campaign and Russian election interference, specifically into Trump’s then-presidential campaign, in addition to his transition team and his time at the White House.
In his angry tirade, Trump claimed that the Pulitzer Prize award in national reporting given to the two newspapers was “based on false reporting of a non-existent link between the Kremlin and the Trump Campaign” and that the Pulitzer Prize Board was “too embarrassed” to respond to a letter urging the board to revoke the news outlets’ Pulitzers.
Read Trump’s statement below:
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President Donald J. Trump:
"have heard that the Pulitzer Prize Board is too embarrassed, or don’t know how, to respond to my letter dated Oct. 3, a copy of which is attached, about those who got the RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA Hoax completely wrong… pic.twitter.com/Vx4W6CE841
— Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) October 29, 2021