WaPo really doesn’t want to give its Pulitzer Prize back.
According to a report from The Daily Mail, despite the Durham Report clearing Trump and outing weaponized intelligence agencies, The Washington Post still will not return a Pulitzer Prize from 2018 awarded for its reporting on the now-debunked Trump-Russia narrative.
From The Daily Mail:
The Washington Post and New York Times picked up the most-vaunted award in American journalism for its ‘deeply sourced, relentlessly reported coverage.’
But the DC-based outlet, which is bankrolled by Democrat-donating Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, insists it will not give up its National Reporting honor.
‘The Post stands by its reporting,’ a Washington Post spokeswoman said.
She cited a 2022 review by the Pulitzer board that said no elements of those stories ‘were discredited by facts that emerged subsequent to the conferral of the prizes.’
The calls follow an investigation by Special Counsel John Durham that trashed the the FBI’s probe into allegations of collusion between Trump and Russia.
‘Neither US law enforcement nor the Intelligence Community appears to have possessed any actual evidence of collusion in their holdings at the commencement of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation,’ the report said.
South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham recently appeared on Fox News to share his thoughts on the issue; he says it’s “not something you should get a Pulitzer Prize for.”
Excerpt of Graham’s comments below. Watch the clip above.
LINDSEY GRAHAM: Here’s what I would say to Senator Durbin. If you’re not disturbed by this, you just hate Trump too much. I don’t care what your politics are. We have a situation where the FBI ran every stop sign available, kept pushing a warrant against an American citizen based on a Steel dossier that was a piece of fiction. The information was supplied the FBI by two Russian agents. It was used to get a warrant against an American citizen to turn his life upside down and create a cloud of the Trump presidency and try to deny him the presidency. Other than that, this is no big deal.
Three things should happen. Garland should pick up the phone and call all those that were harmed by this and say, even though it didn’t happen on my watch, I’ll apologize to you, this is not the Department of Justice that I want you to believe in. I would like the FBI Director Wray to get on the phone and apologize to the people that had their lives ruined by the FBI. And I think the Pulitzer Prize given to The Washington Post and New York Times should be taken back because the entire episode was politically motivated crap. That’s not something you should get a Pulitzer Prize for.
More over at Fox News:
Pulitzer Prize given to Washington Post, New York Times should be taken back after Durham report: Sen. Graham https://t.co/WAp27uXWmx
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