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Looks like Judy Woodruff’s excuse for DOOZY lie about Trump came with a big fat lie too

August 29, 2024 | | Print Article

Judy Woodruff of PBS News is in trouble once more, this time for outright lying to cover her own flailing behind.

As previously reported, she accused former President Donald Trump of having pressured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a recent phone call into not accepting a ceasefire deal with Hamas because the deal would have made Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign look good.

“The reporting is that former President Trump is on the phone with the Prime Minister of Israel, urging him not to cut a deal right now, because it’s believed that would help the Harris campaign,” she said last week.

Listen:

After both Trump and Netanyahu denied the report, Woodruff backtracked with an apology on X.

“I want to clarify my remarks on the PBS News special on Monday night about the ongoing cease-fire talks in the Middle East,” she wrote. “As I said, this was not based on my original reporting; I was referring to reports I had read, in Axios and Reuters, about former President Trump having spoken to the Israeli Prime Minister.”

“In the live TV moment, I repeated the story because I hadn’t seen later reporting that both sides denied it. This was a mistake and I apologize for it,” she added.

Look:

Now notice what she’d written about how her own reporting had been based on what she’d read “in Axios and Reuters.” According to journalist Yashar Ali, there’s a big problem with this excuse of hers.

In a tweet published Wednesday, he noted that “Axios and Reuters never reported that Netanyahu was being urged by Trump not to take a hostage deal.” They “just reported that Trump and Netanyahu spoke about Gaza.”

“But to be sure, I went back to check a few things and also asked Axios for comment,” he continued. “First, the Reuters report that Woodruff cited was just a pickup of an Axios story. The Axios story Woodruff cited had been updated to reflect Netanyahu’s denial that he and Trump ever discussed Gaza and a hostage deal.”

“A spokesperson for Axios confirmed that they NEVER reported that Trump was said to have been discouraging Netanyahu from taking the deal. Not only were Woodruff’s on-air comments inaccurate, but her apology tweet also said that Axios (and Reuters) reported something that they never did,” he added.

So where the hell did she come up with the rest of her accusation?

Critics for their part believe Woodruff just made it up out of thin air.

“She literally made it up,” one critic tweeted.

“She made it up out of her deranged mind,” another critic added.

Critics also wonder how the hell it is that professional so-called “journalists” can get away with such big lies.

Look at some of the burgeoning criticism below:

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