Tilbage i januar bragte Washington Post historien om at Donald Trump i en telefonsamtale havde truet og tigget Brad Raffensperger, Georgias indenrigsminister. ‘Find the fraud’-historien var baseret på en anonym embedsmand, og nåede også de danske medier. Wall Street Journal har fået en kopi af telefonsamtalen, og sandheden var ikke helt så sexet. Ja, faktisk så holdt citaterne ikke vand. Intet dansk medie har omtalt de nye oplysninger, bortset fra BT.dk, der meget symptomatisk headliner med: Nyt telefonopkald: Presset på Trump stiger.

“Correction: Two months after publication of this story, the Georgia secretary of state released an audio recording of President Donald Trump’s December phone call with the state’ top elections investigator. The recording revealed that The Post misquoted Trump’s comments on the call, based on information provided by a source. Trump did not tell the investigator to ‘find the fraud’ or say she would be ‘a national hero’ if she did so. … The headline and text of this story have been corrected to remove quotes misattributed to Trump.” (Washington Post, 11. marts 2021)

(BT.dk ved Andreas Krogsgaard Stenshøj, 14. marts 2021)