{"id":137806,"date":"2017-12-10T00:39:46","date_gmt":"2017-12-10T05:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=137806"},"modified":"2017-12-10T00:39:46","modified_gmt":"2017-12-10T05:39:46","slug":"trump-demands-gets-apology-from-washington-post-reporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/10\/trump-demands-gets-apology-from-washington-post-reporter\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump demands, gets apology from Washington Post reporter"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_137810\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-137810\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Donald-Trump.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-137810\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Donald-Trump.jpg\" alt=\"President Donald Trump has demanded and received an apology from a Washington Post reporter over a photo of Trump's Florida rally on Friday. (Photo: Donald J. Trump\/Facebook)\" width=\"750\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Donald-Trump.jpg 750w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Donald-Trump-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-137810\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Donald Trump has demanded and received an apology from a Washington Post reporter over a photo of Trump&#8217;s Florida rally on Friday. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DonaldTrump\/photos\/a.488852220724.393301.153080620724\/10159712481005725\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DonaldTrump\/\">Donald J. Trump\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. \u2014 President Donald Trump has demanded and received an apology from a Washington Post reporter over a photo of Trump&#8217;s Florida rally on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Trump tweeted Saturday that \u201c.?DaveWeigel ?WashingtonPost put out a phoney photo of an empty arena hours before I arrived ? the venue, w\/ thousands of people outside, on their way in.\u201d The post included photos of the Pensacola venue as Trump spoke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPacked house, many people unable to get in. Demand apology &amp; retraction from FAKE NEWS WaPo!\u201d Trump tweeted from his Florida estate, where he was spending the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Weigel apologized within minutes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSure thing: I apologize,\u201d Weigel tweeted. Weigel said he deleted the photo after another reporter \u201ctold me I&#8217;d gotten it wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump said in a follow-up tweet that Weigel should be fired.<\/p>\n<p>At Friday&#8217;s rally, Trump pointed to a CNN correction and other corrections and clarifications by news organizations in the past week on stories that initially had been damaging to the president but didn&#8217;t live up to the scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. \u2014 President Donald Trump has demanded and received an apology from a Washington Post reporter over &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":137810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24157,16],"tags":[668,37982,14087,37981],"class_list":["post-137806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-american-news","category-news","tag-apology","tag-dave-weigel","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-washington-post-reporter","mauthors-darlene-superville","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}