Trump Criticizes Pulitzer for Rejecting Call to Revoke Awards to NYT, Washington Post

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Former President Donald Trump criticized the Pulitzer Prize Board on July 18 for refusing to rescind the 2018 awards given to The New York Times and The Washington Post for their coverage of the now-debunked counter-intelligence story of alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

โ€œThe Pulitzer Board has taken away any shred of credibility it had left with its โ€˜responseโ€™ regarding the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, which was awarded to The New York Times and The Washington Post for blatant fake news,โ€ Trump said in a statement released on Monday.

โ€œInstead of acting with integrity and providing transparency, the Pulitzer Board is running cover for the biggest reporting failure in modern history: the fake Russia Russia Russia collusion hoax,โ€ Trump added.

In 2018, the board handed the two outlets its National Reporting prizes for โ€œdeeply sourced, relentlessly reported coverage in the public interest that dramatically furthered the nationโ€™s understanding of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.โ€

Trump formally asked the board to withdraw the prizes in October 2021, when he sent a letter to Bud Kliment, who was then-interim administrator of the awards. In his letter, Trump said the coverage was based on โ€œfalse reporting of a non-existent link between the Kremlin and the Trump Campaign.โ€

The former president pointed to the indictment of Michael Sussmann, the former attorney for Hilary Clintonโ€™s 2016 presidential campaign, who was charged last year with making false statements to the FBI.

In May, Trump sent another letter to the board, asking its administrator Marjorie Miller to rescind the prizes. If not, Trump wrote that โ€œwe will see you in court.โ€

On July 18, the Pulitzer Prize Board said it found no reason to withdraw the prizes following two independent reviews, after inquiries from those including Trump.

โ€œThe separate reviews converged in their conclusions: that no passages or headlines, contentions or assertions in any of the winning submissions were discredited by facts that emerged subsequent to the conferral of the prizes,โ€ the board wrote in aย statement.

Byย Frank Fang

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