NY Times' Maggie Haberman Fact-Checks Trump Claim They Didn't Ask Him for a Quote on Pence Report
NY Times Maggie Haberman Fact-Checks Trump Claim They Didnt Ask Him for a Quote on Pence Report
by Josh Feldman | Nov 17th, 2018, 12:10 pm
President Donald Trump lashed out today at the New York Times for its report that hes questioning Mike Pences loyalty. He trashed it during this mornings pool spray as a phony story and complained that he wasnt asked for a quote on the report, which he reiterated in tweets later this morning on the way to California:
Now, for the record, the Times did reach out to the White House, and we know that because
the report includes a quote from a White House official:
Hogan Gidley, the deputy press secretary, disputed that Mr. Trump had any misgivings, saying, The president absolutely supports the vice president and thinks hes doing an incredible job helping to carry out the mission and policies of this administration.
And Maggie Haberman, one of the reporters who filed the story, responded by saying if the President is upset, he may want to take it up with his own people:
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