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March 16, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – The Washington Post has walked back one of its most explosive claims about former President Donald Trump’s reaction to election irregularities in Georgia, two months after the story helped fuel a left-wing narrative that Trump was trying to steal the 2020 presidential election rather than stop it from being stolen.
As was widely covered at the time, The Post reported in January that Trump had asked Georgia chief election investigator Frances Watson to “find the fraud,” for which she would become a “national hero,” during a December phone call. This was used as evidence that Trump was attempting to pressure state officials to manipulate vote totals in his favor, and was specifically cited in Democrats’ second unsuccessful attempt to impeach the 45th president.
After The Wall Street Journal’s release of the actual call audio on March 11, however, The Post issued the following “correction,” alongside a separate story identifying Georgia Deputy Secretary of State Jordan Fuchs as the source of the original false quotes:
Two months after publication of this story, the Georgia secretary of state released
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