President Donald Trump has demanded and obtained an apology from a Washington Post reporter over a photograph of Trump’s Florida rally on Friday.Trump tweeted Saturday that “.@DaveWeigel @WashingtonPost put out a phony photograph of an empty area hours earlier than I arrived @ the venue, w/ hundreds of individuals outdoors, on their approach in.” The put up included photographs of the Pensacola venue as Trump spoke.
“Packed home, many individuals unable to get in. Demand apology & retraction from FAKE NEWS WaPo!” Trump tweeted from his Florida property, the place he was spending the weekend.
Weigel apologized inside minutes.
“Positive factor: I apologize,” Weigel tweeted. Weigel stated he deleted the photograph after one other reporter “instructed me I might gotten it flawed.”
Trump stated in a follow-up tweet that Weigel must be fired.
At Friday’s rally, Trump pointed to a CNN correction and different corrections and clarifications by information organizations prior to now week on tales that originally had been damaging to the president however did not reside as much as the scrutiny.
